Vivi
@vivilavida.bsky.social
Vivi, 31F. Aspiring breakbeat tsaritsa of Pittsburgh. I also make Blender art. I don't post here often, replies to msgs may be slow.
Check out my music here: cosinevi.bandcamp.com
Urbanist and YIMBY. Public transit and bike lane enjoyer.
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Check out my music here: cosinevi.bandcamp.com
Urbanist and YIMBY. Public transit and bike lane enjoyer.
🇺🇦🌻❤️Харьков
treecritters.bandcamp.com/album/tree-t... Another compilation I'm on - proceeds again going to mutual aid. Thanks to the Tree Critters team for putting this together and for working with me on my most recent album. @treecritterslabel.bsky.social
Tree Trunks Vol.2, by Tree Critters Music
25 track album
treecritters.bandcamp.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
treecritters.bandcamp.com/album/tree-t... Another compilation I'm on - proceeds again going to mutual aid. Thanks to the Tree Critters team for putting this together and for working with me on my most recent album. @treecritterslabel.bsky.social
It's Bandcamp Friday! If you like ambient, atmospheric D&B, jungle, and breakbeat music, come check out my collection. cosinevi.bandcamp.com #bandcamp #bandcampfriday #breakbeat #electronicmusic
CosineVi
Let's all build a brighter future! 💖🌻🌱🌨️
Chopping breaks and crafting dreamy soundscapes, from the lovely hills of Pittsburgh.
cosinevi.bandcamp.com
August 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
It's Bandcamp Friday! If you like ambient, atmospheric D&B, jungle, and breakbeat music, come check out my collection. cosinevi.bandcamp.com #bandcamp #bandcampfriday #breakbeat #electronicmusic
Adding "music to wash snakes to" to my genre tags on my releases
August 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Adding "music to wash snakes to" to my genre tags on my releases
telemist.bandcamp.com/album/we-r-m... Fresh charity compilation just dropped! I'm on this (track 10). Lotsa cool tunes. All proceeds to charity - 50/50 split between Trevor Project and Save the Children (Gaza fundraiser).
WE R MASSIVE VOL. 2 - Curated by telemist, by telemist
34 track album
telemist.bandcamp.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
telemist.bandcamp.com/album/we-r-m... Fresh charity compilation just dropped! I'm on this (track 10). Lotsa cool tunes. All proceeds to charity - 50/50 split between Trevor Project and Save the Children (Gaza fundraiser).
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🚨 NEW MILESTONE | Solar OVERTOOK gas as California’s largest source of electricity ☀️
In the 12 months to April 2024, solar produced 83.1 TWh of electricity — surpassing gas (81.6 TWh) for the first time 📈
ember-energy.org/dat...
In the 12 months to April 2024, solar produced 83.1 TWh of electricity — surpassing gas (81.6 TWh) for the first time 📈
ember-energy.org/dat...
July 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🚨 NEW MILESTONE | Solar OVERTOOK gas as California’s largest source of electricity ☀️
In the 12 months to April 2024, solar produced 83.1 TWh of electricity — surpassing gas (81.6 TWh) for the first time 📈
ember-energy.org/dat...
In the 12 months to April 2024, solar produced 83.1 TWh of electricity — surpassing gas (81.6 TWh) for the first time 📈
ember-energy.org/dat...
19thnews.org/2023/06/lgbt... A frustrating part about the "all trans women are programmers" stereotype is that it leads to assumptions that we make bank as SWEs. Nah. For every Emily Programmer-Socks making $200K in big tech, there are ten Jane Baristas, Anna Custodians, etc. making far less.
Paid less for being trans, a woman and a trans woman
This LGBTQ+ Equal Pay Day, The 19th focuses on the wage gap for trans women, who make 60 cents for every $1 earned by the average American worker.
19thnews.org
July 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
19thnews.org/2023/06/lgbt... A frustrating part about the "all trans women are programmers" stereotype is that it leads to assumptions that we make bank as SWEs. Nah. For every Emily Programmer-Socks making $200K in big tech, there are ten Jane Baristas, Anna Custodians, etc. making far less.
eh, I'll give this a try too, why not. Except I'll amend it to "give trans people money in exchange for cool music." Check out my stuff at cosinevi.bandcamp.com. Also check out treecritters.bandcamp.com for my latest release.
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June 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
eh, I'll give this a try too, why not. Except I'll amend it to "give trans people money in exchange for cool music." Check out my stuff at cosinevi.bandcamp.com. Also check out treecritters.bandcamp.com for my latest release.
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I'm playing in this. Come hang and rave to some cool music from both me and some amazingly talented musicians.
June 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm playing in this. Come hang and rave to some cool music from both me and some amazingly talented musicians.
Some people see "Abundance" vs. "Leftism" as enemies which...they don't have to be! This division is just amplified by media outlets/algos farming clicks. Many abundance policies mesh just fine with socdem/demsoc politics and indeed help them! Sure there are conflicts, but not as bad as you'd think.
June 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Some people see "Abundance" vs. "Leftism" as enemies which...they don't have to be! This division is just amplified by media outlets/algos farming clicks. Many abundance policies mesh just fine with socdem/demsoc politics and indeed help them! Sure there are conflicts, but not as bad as you'd think.
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I think at some point we have to stop indulging the fiction that conservatism is a legitimate political tendency and isn't simply a grievance cult for those who value the ability to enact cruelty over their literal basic needs.
June 3, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I think at some point we have to stop indulging the fiction that conservatism is a legitimate political tendency and isn't simply a grievance cult for those who value the ability to enact cruelty over their literal basic needs.
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The wording of the question has changed, but congestion pricing is now at -2 statewide; +10 in NYC in this month's Siena poll. That's a 20 point swing from -22 statewide shortly before launch in December.
December poll: scri.siena.edu/wp-content/u...
May poll: scri.siena.edu/wp-content/u...
December poll: scri.siena.edu/wp-content/u...
May poll: scri.siena.edu/wp-content/u...
May 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The wording of the question has changed, but congestion pricing is now at -2 statewide; +10 in NYC in this month's Siena poll. That's a 20 point swing from -22 statewide shortly before launch in December.
December poll: scri.siena.edu/wp-content/u...
May poll: scri.siena.edu/wp-content/u...
December poll: scri.siena.edu/wp-content/u...
May poll: scri.siena.edu/wp-content/u...
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Corporate reimbursement for driving and parking barely even gets questioned. Biking that saves all that reimbursement? You’re expected to do it out of the goodness of your heart
When I was a civil servant in the '70s, I tried to claim "bicycle mileage" for work-related travel. Got cross-examined by the financial bureaucrats at the Transportation Ministry where I worked. "But," I said, "I had to consume an extra banana. Won't you at least reimburse me for that?"
May 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Corporate reimbursement for driving and parking barely even gets questioned. Biking that saves all that reimbursement? You’re expected to do it out of the goodness of your heart
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"Omg did you see what Adam Tooze said about Ezra Klein possibly having a polycule. You bolt awake in the Euclid, Ohio. You are not online. It is 1926 AD. You are a city planner in Euclid, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Zoning must be destroyed."
May 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"Omg did you see what Adam Tooze said about Ezra Klein possibly having a polycule. You bolt awake in the Euclid, Ohio. You are not online. It is 1926 AD. You are a city planner in Euclid, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Zoning must be destroyed."
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Neon Liberalism #22: Samantha and guest David Vatz, founder of Pro-Housing Pittsburgh, discuss the meaning of the housing crisis, the death of the "asset economy," and what we liberals can do to fix housing despite Trump. www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberali...
Neon Liberalism #22: We CAN Fix Housing
Samantha and guest David Vatz, founder of Pro-Housing Pittsburgh, discuss the meaning of the housing crisis, the death of the "asset economy," and what we liberals can do to fix housing despite Trump....
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Neon Liberalism #22: Samantha and guest David Vatz, founder of Pro-Housing Pittsburgh, discuss the meaning of the housing crisis, the death of the "asset economy," and what we liberals can do to fix housing despite Trump. www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberali...
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Over 1,000 homes are on hold in Pittsburgh because of the Gainey administration’s flawed inclusionary zoning proposal. We warned this would happen. They denied it.
Now families are stuck waiting—and the city is pretending it’s not their fault.
Now families are stuck waiting—and the city is pretending it’s not their fault.
NEWS - PGH’s inclusionary zoning push is causing some developers/investors to pause housing builds even before law is passed. One developer I spoke to isn’t wholesale against IZ, but says it needs tax breaks, mayor doesn’t seem keen on adding tax breaks in www.axios.com/local/pittsb...
Pittsburgh fight over inclusionary zoning is stalling development
Developers say Pittsburgh's inclusionary zoning plan could push investment to other cities.
www.axios.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Over 1,000 homes are on hold in Pittsburgh because of the Gainey administration’s flawed inclusionary zoning proposal. We warned this would happen. They denied it.
Now families are stuck waiting—and the city is pretending it’s not their fault.
Now families are stuck waiting—and the city is pretending it’s not their fault.
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“The numbers are telling the story of how we are making the neighborhood safer,” Panini Chowdhury, DOMI’s planning manager, said. “We didn’t have to wait for federal money. We just listened to the residents and made some changes to help.”
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...
Pittsburgh's Low-Cost Traffic Calming Is a Model for Every City
With a bit of paint and plastic, speeds on a Pittsburgh street dropped from 36 to 23 mph overnight. Here’s how the Pennsylvania city is making its streets safer.
www.strongtowns.org
May 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“The numbers are telling the story of how we are making the neighborhood safer,” Panini Chowdhury, DOMI’s planning manager, said. “We didn’t have to wait for federal money. We just listened to the residents and made some changes to help.”
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...
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seeing people post threads with "advice for trans girls starting out" and like, look, I intentionally don't seek a primarily-transfem audience on here, but all of these posts seem to assume that your friends are all going to be other trans women and if that's the case, you need to change that
May 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
seeing people post threads with "advice for trans girls starting out" and like, look, I intentionally don't seek a primarily-transfem audience on here, but all of these posts seem to assume that your friends are all going to be other trans women and if that's the case, you need to change that
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WPATH/USPATH response to HHS gender dysphoria report: "The HHS report fails to meet established scientific standards. Authored anonymously, it relies on discredited narratives & selectively compiles prior systematic reviews, omitting critical findings from recent studies"
mailchi.mp/wpath/2025-h...
mailchi.mp/wpath/2025-h...
Our Response to the HHS Report
mailchi.mp
May 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
WPATH/USPATH response to HHS gender dysphoria report: "The HHS report fails to meet established scientific standards. Authored anonymously, it relies on discredited narratives & selectively compiles prior systematic reviews, omitting critical findings from recent studies"
mailchi.mp/wpath/2025-h...
mailchi.mp/wpath/2025-h...
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When vacancy rates rise, rents fall. It's the most robust finding in housing. If you want housing costs to fall, you have to build.
April 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
When vacancy rates rise, rents fall. It's the most robust finding in housing. If you want housing costs to fall, you have to build.
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Cory Booker has just broken Strom Thurmond's record for longest Senate filibuster ever, which stood for 68 years.
Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism.
May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.
Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism.
May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.
April 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Cory Booker has just broken Strom Thurmond's record for longest Senate filibuster ever, which stood for 68 years.
Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism.
May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.
Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism.
May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.
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IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE
April 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE
Surprise release inbound! One of my archival tracks is featured on TRANSCEND, a compilation featuring 50 minutes of deep, atmospheric, downtempo EDM. Preorder for the vinyl release is available here dbh-music.com/shop/release... and on many other online shops. Coming 1/12/25.
💖Much love, Vivi
💖Much love, Vivi
January 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Surprise release inbound! One of my archival tracks is featured on TRANSCEND, a compilation featuring 50 minutes of deep, atmospheric, downtempo EDM. Preorder for the vinyl release is available here dbh-music.com/shop/release... and on many other online shops. Coming 1/12/25.
💖Much love, Vivi
💖Much love, Vivi