diff --git a/go/views/follow.go b/go/views/follow.go
index e0a4bf99..9aa25d8d 100644
--- a/go/views/follow.go
+++ b/go/views/follow.go
@@ -106,12 +106,12 @@ type Status struct {
 const WaitsBound = 5 * time.Minute
 
 // waitBound waits d within ctx: true when d passed, false when ctx ended first. A variable so a test ends it at once.
-var waitBound = func(ctx context.Context, d time.Duration) bool {
+var waitBound = swappable(func(ctx context.Context, d time.Duration) bool {
 	b, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, d)
 	defer cancel()
 	<-b.Done()
 	return ctx.Err() == nil
-}
+})
 
 // NoneYet is what a seat's revision verb answers for a branch with no revision yet (design 47 G §479, §495): that view
 // is ready and empty, and nothing waits for it.
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ func (f *Follower) WaitFor(ctx context.Context, view string) {
 	f.logf("views: %s waits for %s's view %s, from %s", f.Tool, f.Owner, view, s.WaitingSince.Format(time.RFC3339))
 	f.say(s)
 	go func() {
-		if !waitBound(ctx, WaitsBound) {
+		if !waitBound.get()(ctx, WaitsBound) {
 			return
 		}
 		f.mu.Lock()
diff --git a/go/views/reader.go b/go/views/reader.go
index dc5b5f0b..1cdf6065 100644
--- a/go/views/reader.go
+++ b/go/views/reader.go
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ type Reader struct {
 }
 
 // subscribe is how the reader asks the runtime for an event pattern; a variable so a test hears without a runtime.
-var subscribe = stdio.Subscribe
+var subscribe = swappable(stdio.Subscribe)
 
 // adoption is how an adopted follower's events are heard: the seat's event, by its local name, and the client's handler.
 type adoption struct {
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ func (r *Reader) begin(name string) {
 	handle := r.handler(ctx, pattern)
 	go func() {
 		for wait := 2 * time.Second; ; wait = min(wait*2, time.Minute) {
-			err := subscribe(pattern, handle)
+			err := subscribe.get()(pattern, handle)
 			if err == nil {
 				break
 			}
diff --git a/go/views/views.go b/go/views/views.go
index d6989047..379f7a6e 100644
--- a/go/views/views.go
+++ b/go/views/views.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
+	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 )
 
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ const PageBytes = 768 * 1024
 var PageBudget = 10 * time.Second
 
 // clock is the page budget's time, replaced by a test.
-var clock = time.Now
+var clock = swappable(time.Now)
 
 // Bound is how long a reader waits for its first view before it raises the condition naming the owner and the verb
 // (ADR 0615 §6): longer than an owner's start, so a normal start, readers and owners coming up together, tells nobody.
@@ -265,12 +266,12 @@ func FirstView(owner, state string, values, marks Source, after string, now time
 	}
 	slices.Sort(keys)
 	size := 0
-	started := clock()
+	started := clock.get()()
 	for _, k := range keys {
 		if after != "" && k <= after {
 			continue
 		}
-		if size > 0 && clock().Sub(started) >= PageBudget {
+		if size > 0 && clock.get()().Sub(started) >= PageBudget {
 			a.Next = lastKey(a.Values)
 			break
 		}
@@ -326,3 +327,16 @@ func decode(data []byte, into any) error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+// swapped is a function a test replaces while a goroutine of an earlier test may still call it: held atomically, so the
+// replacing and the calling never race.
+type swapped[T any] struct{ p atomic.Pointer[T] }
+
+func swappable[T any](v T) *swapped[T] {
+	s := &swapped[T]{}
+	s.p.Store(&v)
+	return s
+}
+
+func (s *swapped[T]) get() T  { return *s.p.Load() }
+func (s *swapped[T]) set(v T) { s.p.Store(&v) }
diff --git a/go/views/views_test.go b/go/views/views_test.go
index a93186a7..9ed21cf1 100644
--- a/go/views/views_test.go
+++ b/go/views/views_test.go
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ func subViews(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 	t.Run("a first view from a slow source stops at the page budget, with one value at least, and pages on to every key", func(t *testing.T) {
 		at := time.Unix(0, 0)
-		clock = func() time.Time { return at }
-		defer func() { clock = time.Now }()
+		clock.set(func() time.Time { return at })
+		defer clock.set(time.Now)
 		slow := mapSource{}
 		for i := range 5 {
 			slow[fmt.Sprintf("k%d", i)] = Entry{Value: json.RawMessage(`{"n":1}`), Revision: uint64(i + 1)}
@@ -306,9 +306,9 @@ func subViews(t *testing.T) {
 	// when; past the bound the part's view-waits is raised once, and holding the view clears it.
 	t.Run("a part that waits for a view says so, raises view-waits past its bound, and holding it clears that", func(t *testing.T) {
 		ended := make(chan bool)
-		kept := waitBound
-		waitBound = func(context.Context, time.Duration) bool { return <-ended }
-		defer func() { waitBound = kept }()
+		kept := waitBound.get()
+		waitBound.set(func(context.Context, time.Duration) bool { return <-ended })
+		defer waitBound.set(kept)
 		var raised, cleared, said []Status
 		var mu sync.Mutex
 		raisedCh := make(chan struct{}, 4) // told after the part's raise, so the test reads it only once it is made
@@ -686,9 +686,9 @@ func subViews(t *testing.T) {
 
 	t.Run("a follower a seat's client made is adopted: the reader's findings, reads and tools hold it, and its seat event goes to the client", func(t *testing.T) {
 		ended := make(chan bool, 1)
-		kept := waitBound
-		waitBound = func(context.Context, time.Duration) bool { return <-ended }
-		defer func() { waitBound = kept }()
+		kept := waitBound.get()
+		waitBound.set(func(context.Context, time.Duration) bool { return <-ended })
+		defer waitBound.set(kept)
 		fs := &signalFindings{put: make(chan seenFinding, 4)}
 		r := &Reader{Module: "reader", Findings: fs, Now: now}
 		var own []string
@@ -792,17 +792,17 @@ func subViews(t *testing.T) {
 	// dropped one hears nothing more, leaves `<module>_first_views`, and the findings it raised are cleared.
 	t.Run("a view adopted after the start takes its first view and follows, and a dropped one leaves with its findings cleared", func(t *testing.T) {
 		ended := make(chan bool, 2)
-		keptBound, keptSubscribe := waitBound, subscribe
-		waitBound = func(context.Context, time.Duration) bool { return <-ended }
+		keptBound, keptSubscribe := waitBound.get(), subscribe.get()
+		waitBound.set(func(context.Context, time.Duration) bool { return <-ended })
 		var hmu sync.Mutex
 		handlers := map[string]func(stdio.Envelope) error{}
-		subscribe = func(p string, h func(stdio.Envelope) error) error {
+		subscribe.set(func(p string, h func(stdio.Envelope) error) error {
 			hmu.Lock()
 			defer hmu.Unlock()
 			handlers[p] = h
 			return nil
-		}
-		defer func() { waitBound, subscribe = keptBound, keptSubscribe }()
+		})
+		defer func() { waitBound.set(keptBound); subscribe.set(keptSubscribe) }()
 		ready := func(f *Follower) {
 			t.Helper()
 			select {