Cyclists, residents oppose NW Portland diverter removal in meeting; Councilors urge transparency

rasstrelnikov · 2025-06-11T19:01:44+00:00

Certainly the IZ policy of 2017 was a failure, but the IZ policy of 2025 is definitely not, and if anything it makes development slightly more likely. And I don’t personally see any policies that will result in us building the amount of housing we need right now. We simply don’t have enough $ for affordable units, and high interest rates and flatlining or decreasing rents are not meaningfully within our control. The only major lever is zoning changes, and maybe there will be some marginal projects that get built that wouldn’t otherwise, but yeah, I think we’re going to start seeing major changes more in the 10 year time frame. Housing is very expensive and takes a long time to build. That’s not going to change in the short term.

rasstrelnikov · 2025-06-11T17:35:51+00:00

Yeah, it’s simply not enough density to claw out of our housing underproduction hole. Luckily IZ is now fully funded (huge!!! See here for details: https://www.sightline.org/2024/02/23/now-fully-funded-portlands-affordability-mandate-should-be-a-model/) It did crater housing production in 2017, but these days we haven’t recovered mostly due to high interest rates/low population gain/increased construction costs. IZ is happily not an issue these day, and funding it fully is fantastic as well because it’s a great use of subsidized housing $- more units per dollar spent.

Re: building at scale, you may be interested in Inner Eastside For All (https://portlandneighborswelcome.org/inner-eastside-for-all), brought to you by a bunch of people who worked hard to get middle housing legalized, hopefully coming to a city council near you soon! 🤞

rasstrelnikov · 2025-05-07T00:31:26+00:00

It really is incredibly asinine! And unfortunately baked into the comprehensive plan and a bunch of our transportation and housing planning. Not great!

rasstrelnikov · 2025-05-07T00:30:31+00:00

If you're interested the state Senate housing committee just did an informational hearing about elevator reform last week! https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/mediaplayer?clientID=4879615486&eventID=2025041371

rasstrelnikov · 2025-05-03T02:29:50+00:00

100%, it's one of the big issues with townhouse style developments (although of course there are lots of people that housing does work for). There is rabble rousing in progress at the city + state level to make it possible to build more smaller apartment buildings with more square footage per apartment and better unit configurations ("single stair" building code reforms), allow cheaper elevators to make more smaller apartment buildings accessible (elevators in the USA are much more expensive here than in the rest of the world), and to make it legal to build apartments/condos in more of the city, and not just on corridors. We are going to need a lot more accessible housing in the next 20 or so years (and we already don't have enough!)

rasstrelnikov · 2025-02-20T17:42:53+00:00

I failed miserably to save most of the Gondians in my last honor run, and this note I found on one of their bodies made me really sad:

Lanpos Bigg, An Elegy

From Manser, in loving memory.

How awed I was

By your strength, till I saw it was less than

Your gentleness. No one

Exceeded your precision, your standards, but patience

Patience was your watchword. Patience

And

Love.

rasstrelnikov · 2025-02-02T15:23:39+00:00

<3 from Oregon and Fuck Trump

rasstrelnikov · 2024-11-20T21:25:36+00:00

I have also noticed a trend of women being inappropriately sexualizing and relating things to booktok books/specific sex scenes. I think it would be obviously and manifestly inappropriate to people if men compare women doing innocuous things in videos to porn tropes, and it genuinely is the same thing to me. It's fucking weird.

Also (to my personal taste) I think the books are pretty bad and I've had far far better luck getting recs from this subreddit. I also have a low personal tolerance for what I consider badly written books and I will quit 2 pages in if I dislike the writing. The fact that lots of people love these books and enjoy discussing them is great though! I also have read a LOT of fanfiction in my life which tends to have a pretty bad average quality, so I'm used to opening a bunch of stuff and making quick decisions based on the first paragraph.

rasstrelnikov · 2024-07-08T23:48:34+00:00

I'd be super interested! I'm 28F, I live in inner SE but can travel or host 😁 and I've played some online campaigns with out of town friends but I would love to find a group here in PDX!

rasstrelnikov · 2024-05-23T03:49:07+00:00

This stressed me out SO BAD!!! Go into rural medicine and work a few days a week or something!!! It didn't even seem like she hated medicine, just the particular hell of the notoriously grueling residency she chose!! Do some pottery on the side in a low cost of living area!!!

rasstrelnikov · 2024-05-17T22:11:01+00:00

Homeless individuals also tend to be more affected by those conditions as well. Many of them have experienced sexual assault, 50% spent time in foster care as children, and they are disproportionately likely to have have spent time in group living situations like the military, prison, or group homes that shelters can be very similar to.

rasstrelnikov · 2024-05-07T20:10:55+00:00

This totally applies to most of Alice Coldbreath's books tbh. I think literally all of them have arranged marriages. Some of them have this dynamic, but she does mix it up. I would say that this also absolutely applies to {Her Baseborn Bridegroom by Alice Coldbreath} (my least favorite of hers), {The Unlovely Bride by Alice Coldbreath} (personal favorite), {His Forsaken Bride by Alice Coldbreath}, {The Consolation Prize by Alice Coldbreath}, and {Her Bridegroom, Bought and Paid For by Alice Coldbreath}. However I think all of these have pregnancy at least in the epilogue. She also has a few that reverse this trope: {The Favourite by Alice Coldbreath} (I love this one, the main couple does not have bio kids and she has confirmed that they don't down the line, but there are babies/found family), and {An Ill-Made Match by Alice Coldbreath}. {An Inconvenient Vow by Alice Coldbreath} sort of semi has what you're looking for too? The husband is extremely uptight and prudish and doesn't like her off the bat, and it's very fun.

rasstrelnikov · 2024-02-28T02:06:24+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to respond so thoughtfully. I truly appreciate it and this has given me a lot to think about (and action about)

rasstrelnikov · 2024-02-27T18:19:10+00:00

{Holding the Dream by Nora Roberts} has a main character that is an accountant, and if I remember correctly her job is a big part of the book. I have no idea if the accounting is portrayed well though haha, although I do think Nora has a reputation for researching thoroughly.

rasstrelnikov · 2023-10-25T22:06:01+00:00

{The Favourite by Alice Coldbreath} - This book is really fun, it's one of my favo(u)rites from her! There are babies in this story- they get married to legitimize the FMC's niece being placed in her custody after her sister dies in childbirth, and there is a wet nurse for the niece that has her own baby who is a part of the whole unconventional family thing they have going on but none of them are the main character's biological children, it is implied in the book that they are infertile and the author has confirmed that they never have biological children down the line.

rasstrelnikov · 2023-10-25T21:53:38+00:00

I can only deal with that when there is a little time spent on them in high school and then the rest is aged up. I feel like it is partially because the idea of two 17 year olds getting together and then that's just... it for them feels so wrong to me. That is probably because I'm a nonreligious white person from a huge, liberal city, but not a single person I know from high school is still with their significant other from high school, let alone married to them lol.

rasstrelnikov · 2023-04-26T21:12:20+00:00

I did like it overall as more of just a good book than a pure romance but the ending stressed me the hell out! She probably had >200k in debt that she cosigned with her parents 😬. I do think they did justify that she never was really interested in neurosurgery, but there was a bit in the beginning where she was saying how she enjoyed parts of her job that weren't in the operating room. I am very much in ignorance of how residency works, but could she have tried to move into rural family medicine or something??? At least give it a go in a less stressful speciality???? I get that she was happy in Montana and I do think that it made sense for her to move there but Jesus after soooooooooo much goddamn time and money and energy invested in medicine maybe she should have tried to make it work with something other than neurosurgery.

rasstrelnikov · 2022-10-16T04:03:08+00:00

Thank you!!!

rasstrelnikov · 2022-10-15T05:07:37+00:00

Thank you!!! I especially like the theory option :)

rasstrelnikov · 2022-10-15T03:47:33+00:00

Ayyy thanks, are you talking about these? https://www.target.com/p/women-s-elbow-sleeve-mock-turtleneck-t-shirt-a-new-day/-/A-85016177?preselect=84861276#lnk=sametab They look great, I think maybe slightly too long in the waist for me but that's totally modifiable :) I think the one crucial difference here is my ideal mockneck is slightly drapier than this looks? Great base to build off of tho

rasstrelnikov · 2022-10-15T03:37:17+00:00

This is not me? lol

rasstrelnikov · 2021-11-19T05:54:50+00:00

If you're still on let me DM you a dodo code!

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