✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 2hBuddy's wife wanted pannier bags for her bicycle, so he bought a sewing machine, taught himself to sew with YouTube, and made her gorgeous custom ones to her taste as a surprise. This is why I have unreasonable standards in dating. My friends are too cool. 060
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Jesse Farrell @jfsculpts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The is why Hitchcock said many of his films contained a "Refrigerator Moment" where, after the movie, you'd be hungry. 0193
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The “a man of his time arguments” are always bullshit because if you were, say, a Taíno, you probably thought Columbus was terrible regardless of what people in Spain thought. But yeah, plenty of people in Spain thought he was too brutal too. 322352
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Reclaiming boomer humor, "Take my <s>wife</s> brain, please!" 100
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I can't believe Prop G supporters want to take this playground away from city kids and replace it with a highway 528952
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Just finished Canon by Paige Lewis and holy shit holy shit holy shit this is now in my absolute top books, SO GOOD SO BEAUTIFUL trying not to cry on the bus because I can’t ruin my makeup BEFORE work only after but HOLY SHIT it’s so good 050
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026listen i won’t shed a single tear for kim or any of the women who work for trump, but it remains interesting that only the women in his orbit suffer consequences for being pieces of shit 1094041588
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I am over 40, I promise you I have successfully navigated relationships in my life 010
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Of course. I simply happen to get a lot of happiness and bonding out of cooking for people and sharing meals so that’s an important part of cohabitating for me. 110
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 12/10/2026A nice thing about living alone is that I can make a dinner that is very delicious but does not look good at all, and not have to convince a partner that it’s good and not gross. 260
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 11/10/2026Repeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40! 728471764
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it. 212338924
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yeah SF put in some designated bus lanes to help with busses stuck in traffic and it REALLY helps. The more we prioritize transit, the better it gets and the more people use it! 120
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Finding a group of goa’uld with the cool S on their forehead 140
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me. 46107702998
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yearning for a Stargate episode where they discover the cool S in ancient ruins on a distant planet. The human constant. 120
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We have a couple of light rail lines in SF that share street lanes with car traffic. This makes them AGONIZING. But that is because of the cars and design, not because of the train! Even with that, they are PACKED. People love trains over cars for so so much, given the chance! 130
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026How tf is it that port placement has been so much more painful than the mastectomy 🙃 210
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Thinking about making myself a set of “unpleasant medical procedure” punch cards, and on my tenth, I get a milkshake. The only drawback is that I have to provide my own milkshake, just another glaring shortcoming of the American medical system. 170
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4073526310616
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren... 8651391859
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Art only a human could make. 27111
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities 207126123133
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This raises a really important question: A) Moby Dicks B) Mobys Dick Or C)Mobies Dick 4220535
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Sounds like JKR’s next big work of Potter-art, on the side of the Pinkertons 110
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Psychiatric disorders are fun because I woke up today feeling great, just really happy and energized, and so I immediately went "oh shit oh fuck oh no" and that is actually the correct response 🙃 040
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline 2336471377
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I love the concept of public transit so much but this is the second time this week that some version of this has happened to me. I understand why people drive even though I don’t agree with it. If we don’t fund Muni this election I think we’re all pretty cooked. 021
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 04/10/2026At the stop for the 33 and the driver let some of the people in the stop on and then, even though the bus was practically empty, when the light turned yellow, he closed the doors, gunned it through the intersection. We were waving and screaming for him to not leave us. The next bus is in 45 minutes. 130
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Deanna Troi stunned today with her choice of a blue low cut onesie instead of a pink low cut onesie, what fashion innovations will we see around here next?" The following week "We have had a visit from Lwaxana Troi--" 110
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I mean is Guinan in Starfleet? I don't think so? I feel like there are SO MANY civilian roles on a huge ship like that, as well as like... civilian researchers! Anthropologists! Artists! Operating the ship is what Starfleet does, and there's a lot more to be done! 110
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I just want to poke the building from one side and watch them all wiggle 🤩 010
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The best, healthiest, most meaningful relationship of my life ended in significant part due to his sports gambling. (He's insanely successful so I'm sure he's fine financially) We normally were so aligned ethically and this was just such a wedge. 160
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Exactly. I am tired of seeing the “I always knew”/“their work was actually bad” takes whenever allegations emerge. Sometimes—often, actually!—bad people find their way into good spaces and make good things. And you’re not better than the folks who were taken advantage of for “always knowing” 192612738
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026well this is PAINFULLY sweet, I absolutely love this for you 🥹 010
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Nadia Oxford @nadiaoxford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What boring and weaselly people don’t want you to know about living in cities is that there’s a very small chance you’ll meet someone who wishes you harm because you’re not the right race/creed/whatever, but there’s a much greater chance you’re going to meet Hussein. 423062
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We are betting incredibly hard on their incompetence and if I have learned anything from studying how America exports its violence, it is that a massive degree of incompetence can be overcome with unbelievable amounts of money and firepower. I don’t love our odds as much as some of you seem to 864443
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 29/09/2026"Captain ACAB Collectively tracking the hidden costs of law enforcement $417,226,529.79 in CA settlements 294 cases 11 CA municipalities" captainacab.comcaptainacab.comCaptain ACAB -- CA settlements from law enforcement.Tracking the hidden costs of law enforcement in the United States. $1,563,000.00 in CA settlements and counting. 044
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something. 8728206
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI 942512665
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Returned to work at the office today, and I already four different beverages on my desk. We are so back, baby. 0110
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This. When Andrea Dworkin said rape is the weapon that all men use to control all women, she wasn't saying all men rape. She was saying 1. Non-raping men permit rape to be as common as it is 2. Raping and non-raping men use the fear of "other" men to gain "good guy" status a short thread... 330986
Reposted by ✨ Viv ✨The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don't know who needs to hear this, but yes, you do deserve to treat yourself to a day of exploring bookstores, greenhouses, libraries, museums, cafés, and bakeries. 211050195