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  1. Sylvester (September 6, 1947 – December 16, 1988) AKA “The Queen of Disco” is primarily known as a popular and openly Gay disco musician in the late 1970s and 1980s. “Don’t Stop” (youtu.be/bR07d29r_JU?si=ueGPh8) is from their penultimate album “All I Need” AKA “Do Ya Wanna Funk” (youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK)
    #RetroView #PrideMonth #Sylvester

  2. Sylvester (September 6, 1947 – December 16, 1988) AKA “The Queen of Disco” is primarily known as a popular and openly Gay disco musician in the late 1970s and 1980s. “Don’t Stop” (youtu.be/bR07d29r_JU?si=ueGPh8) is from their penultimate album “All I Need” AKA “Do Ya Wanna Funk” (youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK)
    #RetroView #PrideMonth #Sylvester

  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. <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

  6. "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

  7. "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

  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. 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

  12. "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

  13. "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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 𝗦𝘆𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗻

    Sylvester Stallone gaat alleen maar harder trainen naarmate hij ouder wordt. De 79-jarige filmster, bekend van Rocky en Rambo, deelde op Instagram een filmpje vanuit de sportschool. Dat hij dit doet houdt hem "vol zelfvertrouwen en klaar om elke uitdaging het hoofd te bieden".

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55571

    #Sylvester #Stallone #trainen

  18. 𝗦𝘆𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗻

    Sylvester Stallone gaat alleen maar harder trainen naarmate hij ouder wordt. De 79-jarige filmster, bekend van Rocky en Rambo, deelde op Instagram een filmpje vanuit de sportschool. Dat hij dit doet houdt hem "vol zelfvertrouwen en klaar om elke uitdaging het hoofd te bieden".

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55571

    #Sylvester #Stallone #trainen

  19. Der “Verband" jubelte bereits im März 25 von “197 Mio. Euro zum #Jahreswechsel 2024/25” für das verstörende #Sylvester-Verhalten in #Deutschland. Die #Industrie behauptet eine “Abstimmung mit den Füßen”.

    Mit EUR 197 Mio. könnte, bei der geschätzten Zahl von 60.000 obdachlosen Menschen auf der Straße, jede einzelne Person drei Monate, also über den Winter, in einer Pension unterkommen.

    Du bist, wenn Du das mitfühlst und Dein Geld sinnvoll verwendest, mein*e Held*in.

    #Obdachlos #Wohnungslos

  20. Wieso immer wieder das gleiche?? Wieso werden Einsatzkräfte mit Böllern usw. attackiert? Ich werde es nie verstehen!

    https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/silvester-2026-102.html

    #Sylvester #Böller #Einsatzkräfte

  21. Frohes Neues!

    Im #Garten - Gebiet wirkt die nahe Stadt wie fernes Gewitter mit Prasselregen. Flucht gelungen: Der alte #Hund ruht stressfrei und genießt die Ofenwärme.

    Wünsche euch im #Fediverse und allen Menschen auf der Welt dieselbe Ruhe und #Frieden in #2026, die ich hier zu #Sylvester und #Neujahr haben durfte.

  22. LEUTE MIT DER GEISTIGEN REIFE VON BADEZIMMERFLIESEN

    Mich kotzen diese Idioten mit ihrem Scheiss Geböller voll an.
    Das hat mich vor 60 Jahren schon angekotzt, dieses dümmliche Glosen in den Augen,
    wenn sie was anzünden und explodieren lassen dürfen ...

    #feuerwerk
    #sylvester
    #boellerei
    #boellerverbot