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I had not considered this: biking shoes (the ones that clip) as pseudobondage, not because they limit your movement but they alter your gait due to the clip being on the front.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
johnlingan.bsky.social
Happy 80th birthday to Neil Young, an Olympian figure and the subject of some of the funniest quotes in BACKBEATS thanks to his tempestuous relationship with Kenny Buttrey.

“Neil hires some of the best musicians in the world and has 'em play as stupid as they possibly can.”
Neil Young was among the folk rockers to follow Dylan's lead to Music City. He was still largely known as a crunchy electric guitarist at that point; he used distortion to signify joy and abandon on "Cinnamon Girl" and heartbreak on "Ohio." But his recent songs had been written during extensive physical recovery, like Dylan's had been, and were calmer for it. Buttrey, along with Tim Drummond on bass, Jack Nitzsche on piano, and Ben Keith on pedal steel, became Young's Nashville band, which he dubbed the Stray Gators. Harvest, the record they made together, was Young's biggest in every way. It featured a full orchestra on multiple tracks, two career-defining singles ("Old Man" and "Heart of Gold," his first number 1), guest background vocalists Ronstadt and James Taylor, and some of his best songwriting, particularly the straightforwardly country title track. Buttrey helped Young achieve that, even if their relationship was hardly chummy. "Neil tells everybody what to play, note for note," Buttrey said later. "If you play somethin' he doesn't like, boy, he'll put a look on you you'll never forget. Neil hires some of the best musicians in the world and has 'em play as stupid as they possibly can." Young told Buttrey not to play cymbals, and to hit his hi-hats with his nondominant left hand. Everything about Neil Young was defiant— his overdriven guitar tones, his nasal high tenor, the mix of unaffected directness and inscrutable poeticism in his lyrics. And that extended to his sense of rhythm. The prehistoric stomp of his work with Crazy Horse, like his distinctive hammer-on acoustic guitar style, was all about riding a groove, and the ambitious productions of Harvest didn't get in the way of that goal. "Out on the Weekend" and especially "Harvest" have a methodical, subdued gait that comes directly from Young's strumming, not the drums, as Buttrey acknowledged. The strings of Young's guitar fill the spaces where cymbals would otherwise go. "It's just ultra-, ultra-simple, a laidback kinda thing nobody but Neil does, and if you're right with him it sounds great, and it sounds awful if you're not," Buttrey explained. "If I can't see Neil's right hand when he's playin' guitar, then I'm not playing. His rhythm playing is just perfect—it'll feel like he's slowing down, but it's just the Neil Young feel. No drummer should ever hold Neil to a certain tempo, because if you put a metronome on it, you kill the Neil Young feel." After the success of Harvest, Young brought the Stray Gators on a 1973 tour, the first time Buttrey had allowed himself to be lured out of the studio and on the road. Supposedly the drummer requested an exorbitant payment of $100,000 to offset his lost record-making wages, which prompted the other musicians to ask the same. The anger never abated between Buttrey and Young, who was also reeling from the recent overdose death of his friend and Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten. Increasingly reliant on tequila to calm his nerves, playing in bigger venues than ever before, and bereft of his harder-rocking backing group, Young was at his wits end through this tour and took it out on Buttrey. "Neil would just jump all over me," Buttrey said. Young kept hectoring him to hit the bass drum harder and get bigger sticks, and Buttrey kept buying thicker and thicker ones until a music store clerk told him, "Son, anything bigger than this is gonna have bark on it." Young once got so angry he punctured Buttrey's snare with a drumstick during a sound check. "I was playin' ten times louder than I had ever played in my life," the drummer recalled. "I was tryin' thicker heads, bigger sticks. It was drivin' me crazy. I looked down at the snare drums one night and saw somethin' splatter. My hand would bleed, it was drippin' down the stick and formed a big puddle on the snare. And when I hit the drum, blood would fly through the air.. It was the roughest time of my life." He quit midway through the tour, and the other musicians, Young included, plowed ahead in wretched shape from overdrinking. Incredibly, Young released a live album from this tour, Time Fades Away, though he chose performances from the leg that featured Jefferson Airplane drummer Johnny Barbata as Buttrey's replacement. It also contained only raw and rowdy new songs, recorded sparely, not the recent melodic hits that made his fame. In the longer context of his career, especially the chilling records that followed in Young's "ditch trilogy," it remains an exhilarating album, with songs that aren't found elsewhere in his catalog and a bleary, brown sound to match its cover. Yet Young basically disowned it, and let it fall out of print for nearly fifty years.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
transgander.bsky.social
That noted I don't get this fascination with making humanoid robots. Like has anyone noticed the homo genus (so us+ our closest now extinct relatives) are the only animals that have this specific bipedal gait? There's a reason for that: its actually a really not great way to walk!
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
michaelokun.bsky.social
Do NOT swim alone if you have Parkinson's. Do we do enough to warn people about drowning? Did you know if you have Parkinson's, you can 'freeze' when swimming, and it could be an early warning sign for later Parkinson’s freezing of gait.
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
keltikidea.bsky.social
I hear they modelled the gait on Boris Yeltsin.
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
dhul-qarnayn.bsky.social
You have to admit the whole idea of gait analysis is very funny
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
micda-umisr.bsky.social
#GSA2025 Wednesday, November 12th 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM ET
Session Title: Gait Speed in Older Adults and Cognitive Health
3 - Gait speed and cognitive performance in older adult women: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
ten-brick-tan.bsky.social
A computer program that compared the bomb suspect’s gait to that of Shauni Kerkhoff produced a 94% match

Did you guys run a gait analysis for Ivan? No? Why not?
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
ten-brick-tan.bsky.social
A computer program that compared the bomb suspect’s gait to that of Shauni Kerkhoff produced a 94% match
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
ten-brick-tan.bsky.social
A computer program that compared the bomb suspect’s gait to that of Shauni Kerkhoff produced a 94% match
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
ten-brick-tan.bsky.social
Did you guys perform any gait analysis on unedited footage to reach that conclusion?
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
oligogirl.bsky.social
Authors here report 3 cases, 2 who had symptoms before age 3 and one where symptoms started at age 5. Notably all three patients had a delayed speech, but motor development initially was fine (standing and walking not delayed). However, patients later presented with waddling gait, weakness...
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
When grief comes to you as a purple gorilla you must count yourself lucky.

You must offer her what's left
of your dinner, the book you were trying to finish
you must put aside
and make her a place to sit at the foot of your bed,
-MATTHEW DICKMAN
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
Grief BY MATTHEW DICKMAN When grief comes to you as a purple gorilla you must count yourself lucky. You must offer her what's left of your dinner, the book you were trying to finish you must put aside and make her a place to sit at the foot of your bed, her eyes moving from the clock to the television and back again. I am not afraid. She has been here before and now I can recognize her gait as she approaches the house. Some nights, when I know she's coming, I unlock the door, lie down on my back, and count her steps from the street to the porch. Tonight she brings a pencil and a ream of paper, tells me to write down everyone I have ever known, and we separate them between the living and the dead so she can pick each name at random. I play her favorite Willie Nelson album because she misses Texas but I don't ask why. She hums a little, the way my brother does when he gardens. We sit for an hour while she tells me how unreasonable I've been, crying in the check-out line, refusing to eat, refusing to shower, all the smoking and all the drinking.
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
teepiieh.bsky.social
His gait pattern ...🤔
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 AM
stygmatus.bsky.social
i love how scared-horny this is making me (and jayce)
There was a long pause, a thick silence that stretched between them, and Jayce could almost feel the creature’s eyes on him, watching, waiting. Then, the sound of Viktor’s footsteps approached slowly, his gait uneven, the clinking of metal against bone echoing louder with each step. Jayce’s breath caught in his throat. “No,” Viktor’s voice whispered again, so soft it felt like a caress, “I don’t want just any companion. I want you, Jayce. You, the one who made me. The one who... understands me.”
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
maeamian.bsky.social
Watch this with mute on, that man cannot walk right. The camera movement hides it a little but that's a weird fucking gait
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
INGRAHAM: Where did you get the stone?

TRUMP: Different places

INGRAHAM: Different places? Hmm
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
descartesghost123.bsky.social
He’s walking with a very strange gait. Does he have a full diaper? Is he wearing a catheter bag? Is his right side amiss?
Something isn’t right
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
martinput.bsky.social
What's this obsession with human-like gait?

99% of such devices would move easier on wheels, be easier to build and cheaper.

They don't need humanoid form either.
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
hank-scorpion.bsky.social
Did they model the robot’s gait after Joe Biden??
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
prettypinkpansy.bsky.social
a virgin/chad meme with "The Virgin Biped" versus "THE CHAD BAXTER" showing the AIdol robot and a Baxter robot. various arrows pointing to Virgin Biped such as "ineffective wobbly gait" "numerous points of failure" "looks like a human but doesn't even have the decency to be sexy" "no real world use case" various arrows pointing to THE CHAD BAXTER such as "handsome reassuring face" "popular in universities" "incredible practical" "open source" "will play tic tac toe with you"
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
janejanajuno.bsky.social
#dyadprompts

3/3
“Not like what?” “Not like some jealous lover. I am fucking jealous. Why do you think I keep sticking you in the van?” Closing his eyes, he tipped his head back until it thunked softly against the steel pole behind him. “You’re so goddamn capable, Rey. So goddamn good at this job. But I see one of these assholes even breathe in your direction—and all I want to do is pick you up and run.” Rey had only ever known Ben Solo to be a liar, a consummate actor, using every tool at his disposal. Even his flirtation was a disguise… …wasn’t it? “Ben,” she whispered, realizing at the stupefied look on his face, the foreign sound of his name in her mouth, that it was the first time she’d ever spoken it out loud. “I could, potentially, be amenable to being carried away.” He stood upright in an instant, that huge body of his towering over her even ten feet away, and without another word, wedged his neck and shoulder into the pole and swung his legs straight into the air, pumping leg lift after leg lift in a physical feat that Rey didn’t think should even be possible. In awe, she watched as he used every bit of his body except his hands to shimmy up the pole until he landed in a crouch on the ground. “How the fuck—” With a hobbling gait, Ben shuffled over and behind her. She could hear his knees hit the concrete, the grunt of pain when the dislocated one made contact with the ground, and felt his breath rush across the top of her ass. “Ben, what are you doing?” “Following instructions, Rey.” A soft kiss landed on one of her bruised knuckles, and several more followed, his mouth working its way up to the length of cord wrapped tight around her wrists. “Keeping my mouth full.”
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
ashleyshoo.bsky.social
We’d miss out on some of the eugenic/transhumanist subtext if it wasn’t “upright” with a good gait and posture and all.
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
karijohn.bsky.social
They have a spectacular gait much different from other breeds of horses. Beautiful.
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
gizzylagarce.bsky.social
Report: Gait Analysis Allegedly Links Ex-Capitol Officer to Jan 6 Pipe Bombs

ground.news/article/soft...

This bullshit is like the "Bite mark" forensic analysis, highly subjective and prone to misinterpretation.
Report: Gait Analysis Allegedly Links Ex-Capitol Officer to Jan 6 Pipe Bombs
According to a Blaze Media investigation published Saturday, forensic analysis using gait recognition software has identified a 94% to 98% match between former U.S. Capitol Police officer Shauni Rae K...
ground.news
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM