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  1. Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.

    twp.ai/4hrM5T

    #AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism

  2. Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.

    twp.ai/4hrM5T

    #AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism

  3. Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.

    twp.ai/4hrM5T

    #AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism

  4. Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.

    twp.ai/4hrM5T

    #AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism

  5. Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.

    twp.ai/4hrM5T

    #AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism

  6. <Do You Wanna Funk ?>

    akaikōshi's second Atari ST sample disc released at Buxton Bytes 2026.

    Song is "Do You Wanna Funk" 1982 by Patrick Cowley feat. Sylvester - hope you'll like it!

    demozoo.org/groups/148458/

    youtu.be/z7sdZefQbxI?si=7jBdBj

    #demoscene #demoparty #atari #atarist #pixelart #funk #patrickcowley #sylvester

  7. <Do You Wanna Funk ?>

    akaikōshi's second Atari ST sample disc released at Buxton Bytes 2026.

    Song is "Do You Wanna Funk" 1982 by Patrick Cowley feat. Sylvester - hope you'll like it!

    demozoo.org/groups/148458/

    youtu.be/z7sdZefQbxI?si=7jBdBj

    #demoscene #demoparty #atari #atarist #pixelart #funk #patrickcowley #sylvester

  8. "Freeway of Love" is a song by American singer #ArethaFranklin. It was written by #JeffreyCohen and #NaradaMichaelWalden and produced by the latter for Franklin's thirtieth studio album, #WhosZoominWho (1985). The song features a notable contribution from #ClarenceClemons, the saxophonist from #BruceSpringsteen’'s #EStreetBand. #Sylvester, #MarthaWash, and #JeanieTracy provided backup vocals on "Freeway of Love". Released as the album's lead single on June 5, 1985.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_pjb5_fgA

  9. "Freeway of Love" is a song by American singer #ArethaFranklin. It was written by #JeffreyCohen and #NaradaMichaelWalden and produced by the latter for Franklin's thirtieth studio album, #WhosZoominWho (1985). The song features a notable contribution from #ClarenceClemons, the saxophonist from #BruceSpringsteen’'s #EStreetBand. #Sylvester, #MarthaWash, and #JeanieTracy provided backup vocals on "Freeway of Love". Released as the album's lead single on June 5, 1985.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_pjb5_fgA

  10. "Freeway of Love" is a song by American singer #ArethaFranklin. It was written by #JeffreyCohen and #NaradaMichaelWalden and produced by the latter for Franklin's thirtieth studio album, #WhosZoominWho (1985). The song features a notable contribution from #ClarenceClemons, the saxophonist from #BruceSpringsteen’'s #EStreetBand. #Sylvester, #MarthaWash, and #JeanieTracy provided backup vocals on "Freeway of Love". Released as the album's lead single on June 5, 1985.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_pjb5_fgA

  11. "Freeway of Love" is a song by American singer #ArethaFranklin. It was written by #JeffreyCohen and #NaradaMichaelWalden and produced by the latter for Franklin's thirtieth studio album, #WhosZoominWho (1985). The song features a notable contribution from #ClarenceClemons, the saxophonist from #BruceSpringsteen’'s #EStreetBand. #Sylvester, #MarthaWash, and #JeanieTracy provided backup vocals on "Freeway of Love". Released as the album's lead single on June 5, 1985.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_pjb5_fgA

  12. "Freeway of Love" is a song by American singer #ArethaFranklin. It was written by #JeffreyCohen and #NaradaMichaelWalden and produced by the latter for Franklin's thirtieth studio album, #WhosZoominWho (1985). The song features a notable contribution from #ClarenceClemons, the saxophonist from #BruceSpringsteen’'s #EStreetBand. #Sylvester, #MarthaWash, and #JeanieTracy provided backup vocals on "Freeway of Love". Released as the album's lead single on June 5, 1985.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_pjb5_fgA

  13. Deep Listening Day #93 — Sylvester: Stars (1979). his cover of #BenEKing's I (Who Have Nothing) is the stand out of the 3 Hi-NRG tracks, but the slow and lowdown I Need Somebody To Love Tonight written by #PatrickCowley is the song I can't get enough of.

    #DeepListening #Sylvester #Stars

  14. Deep Listening Day #93 — Sylvester: Stars (1979). his cover of #BenEKing's I (Who Have Nothing) is the stand out of the 3 Hi-NRG tracks, but the slow and lowdown I Need Somebody To Love Tonight written by #PatrickCowley is the song I can't get enough of.

    #DeepListening #Sylvester #Stars

  15. Deep Listening Day #93 — Sylvester: Stars (1979). his cover of #BenEKing's I (Who Have Nothing) is the stand out of the 3 Hi-NRG tracks, but the slow and lowdown I Need Somebody To Love Tonight written by #PatrickCowley is the song I can't get enough of.

    #DeepListening #Sylvester #Stars

  16. Deep Listening Day #93 — Sylvester: Stars (1979). his cover of #BenEKing's I (Who Have Nothing) is the stand out of the 3 Hi-NRG tracks, but the slow and lowdown I Need Somebody To Love Tonight written by #PatrickCowley is the song I can't get enough of.

    #DeepListening #Sylvester #Stars

  17. "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is a song by American disco/#RAndB singer #Sylvester. It was written by James Wirrick and Sylvester, produced by #HarveyFuqua and Sylvester, and released by #FantasyRecords as the second single from the singer's fourth album, #StepII (1978). The song was already a largely #popular dance club hit in 1978, as the B-side of his previous single "#DanceDiscoHeat", before it was officially being released in December.
    youtube.com/watch?v=gD6cPE2BHic

  18. "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is a song by American disco/#RAndB singer #Sylvester. It was written by James Wirrick and Sylvester, produced by #HarveyFuqua and Sylvester, and released by #FantasyRecords as the second single from the singer's fourth album, #StepII (1978). The song was already a largely #popular dance club hit in 1978, as the B-side of his previous single "#DanceDiscoHeat", before it was officially being released in December.
    youtube.com/watch?v=gD6cPE2BHic

  19. "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is a song by American disco/#RAndB singer #Sylvester. It was written by James Wirrick and Sylvester, produced by #HarveyFuqua and Sylvester, and released by #FantasyRecords as the second single from the singer's fourth album, #StepII (1978). The song was already a largely #popular dance club hit in 1978, as the B-side of his previous single "#DanceDiscoHeat", before it was officially being released in December.
    youtube.com/watch?v=gD6cPE2BHic

  20. "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is a song by American disco/#RAndB singer #Sylvester. It was written by James Wirrick and Sylvester, produced by #HarveyFuqua and Sylvester, and released by #FantasyRecords as the second single from the singer's fourth album, #StepII (1978). The song was already a largely #popular dance club hit in 1978, as the B-side of his previous single "#DanceDiscoHeat", before it was officially being released in December.
    youtube.com/watch?v=gD6cPE2BHic

  21. "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is a song by American disco/#RAndB singer #Sylvester. It was written by James Wirrick and Sylvester, produced by #HarveyFuqua and Sylvester, and released by #FantasyRecords as the second single from the singer's fourth album, #StepII (1978). The song was already a largely #popular dance club hit in 1978, as the B-side of his previous single "#DanceDiscoHeat", before it was officially being released in December.
    youtube.com/watch?v=gD6cPE2BHic

  22. The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.

    One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).

    The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.

    J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.

    When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.

    1/3

    #linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty

  23. The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.

    One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).

    The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.

    J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.

    When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.

    1/3

    #linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty

  24. The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.

    One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).

    The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.

    J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.

    When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.

    1/3

    #linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty

  25. The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.

    One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).

    The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.

    J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.

    When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.

    1/3

    #linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty

  26. The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.

    One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).

    The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.

    J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.

    When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.

    1/3

    #linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty

  27. Fun fact: Cosey Fanni Tutti from Throbbing Gristle was one of the dancers in this classic:

    Sylvester - You make me feel

    youtube.com/watch?v=gD6cPE2BHic

    #Sylvester #music