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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 27/09/2026

I bet they can’t beat $2.50 a day! Just thinking of how many times I’ve heard electeds talk about needing 100% farebox recovery while pointing to Uber as something better.

Image of the fares for transit in Austin showing $2.50 a day for local service.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 13/09/2026

Summer? Is that what they used to call smoke season from June to September before the smoke? Lived in Bend Oregon a few years where this already felt too real.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 31/08/2026

I came across this quote from Ulysses S Grant recently. It was from short remarks to a veterans group emphasizing free public schools as the most important thing to avoid a new civil war. Full context in alt text. Anyway. Always great to see Seattle leaders short change their commitments.

I do not bring into this assemblage politics, certainly not partisan politics, but it is a fair subject for soldiers in their deliberations to consider what may be necessary to secure the prize for which they battled in a republic like ours. Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign — the people — should possess intelligence.

The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.

Now in this centennial year of our national existence, I believe it a good time to begin the work of strengthening the foundation of the house commenced by our patriotic forefathers one hundred years ago, at Concord and Lexington. Let us all labor to add all needful guarantees for the more perfect security of free thought, free speech, and free press, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and of equal rights and privileges to all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion.

Encourage free schools, and resolve that not one dollar of money appropriated to their support, no matter how raised, shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school. Resolve that the State or Nation, or both combined, shall furnish to every child growing up in the land, the means of acquiring a good common-school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistic tenets. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. With these safeguards, I believe the battles which created the Army of the Tennessee will not have been fought in vain.

September 29, 1875

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 27/06/2026

I’ve been tempted to do coin/stamp nerd threads for the World Cup like yours but have resisted so far. Here’s a stamp for this one though:

Iranian stamp from 1982 celebrating “the revolutionary execution agent of Sadat”

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 26/06/2026

One of my favorite examples to mock in this vein is (outgoing) Deschutes County Commissioner Tony Debone. Tech guy from Michigan, worked in Seattle area before settling in Hawaii -- and then finally found himself in wild, wild La Pine, Oregon. Pics are when he was first elected versus now.

Tony Debone's official picture as county commissioner from over 10 years ago. Still a cherubic tech boy.

Tony Debone in his failed 2026 reelection bid adorned in cowboy hat and boots in front of a tractor for some reason. He lives in a suburb and does not own a farm.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 21/04/2026

Supposedly there are major changes coming to the transit system in less than two weeks but there’s still no detailed information available to the public about the actual changes. Instead we get advertising about Papa Muphy’s?! Why is a tax funded agency begging for a share of pizza sales??

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 17/04/2026

That used to be the policy at CET but appears to no longer be the case. We stopped doing full body wraps not just because rider inconvenience but also the paltry revenue just wasn’t worth it once you factor in operational logistics and frequent damage on removal. Maybe Knute is overpaying though…

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 15/04/2026

Ah, that’s what I was wondering when you said you knew Fred. Fun guy! This is me with him and the CP1 crew for V-E Day 2002 in Menton. I’m the young one and was CP1 webmaster at the time 🤣

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 31/03/2026

Iran made postage stamps out of that one. This is who we picked a fight with.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 23/03/2026

Iran remembers. They made postage stamps! The stamp reads: "Failure of US military aggression against Iran, Tabas 1980" That was one of Delta Force's very first missions. Americans died not at enemy hands, but in a clusterfuck. The Ayatollah said it was stopped by an act of God.

Iranian postage stamp from 1986 calling out the "Failure of US military aggression against Iran, Tabas 1980"

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 20/03/2026

A good jumping off point could be explaining why Dukakis in a tank was career ending cringe while the right demands pictures like this from candidates as though they were a hazing initiation. Pictured: wannabe Oregon governor Christine Drazan.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 02/03/2026

Funny you mention that because Facebook is inserting AI “reels” of aircraft carriers being destroyed into people’s feeds. Great that I still have to use that social media platform for government work…

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 09/02/2026

Figured I would keep a browser window open with the score and it looks like AI has leaked the game final score already. Place your bets! (this is a real screenshot I took around 4pm on the west coast)

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 08/02/2026

I’ve actually got some money from the 1848 revolutionary governments in the area! “Moneta Patriottica”!

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 03/02/2026

It seems they use 2 euro cent coins to make the German version of elongated pennies now but it was 5 pfennig coins when I was a kid there. Anyway, even boring cities like Dusseldorf have TV towers on the skyline! Functional and a minor tourist attraction in one.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 20/01/2026

I have to use Facebook for work and the Reels section at the top of the feed keeps pushing AI videos of ICE being arrested. Or in this case “FICE” While we hear pleas to turn down the temperature, Mark Zuckerberg is over here handing out matches.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 15/01/2026

Nor asking for… Knopp is very much not repentant, nor anti Trump. He is a true believer extremist despite wearing a suit. For a look at his family values, his wife (who he hired as a legislative aide) celebrated SCOTUS overturning Roe by saying it was a good day to fill up her liberal tears cup.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 11/01/2026

Can we get the X taken off of here:

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 03/01/2026

Sidetrack seeing the Clackamas GOP mentioned: Do you know anything about the oddball Chuck Norris billboards that for long time appeared next to Republican candidate signs on the road out there? Always was a head scratcher that I never had the time to figure out

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 31/12/2025

One of the main goals from Republicans failed 2017 “repeal and replace” effort has been achieved. For all the talk from Dem leaders about a focus on healthcare, did you even know that happened? Greg Walden was one of the plan’s key authors in the House. Listen:

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 26/12/2025

Arby’s used to have a 5 for $5 beef and cheddar combo and now just one beef and cheddar alone costs $9.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 18/12/2025

I’d love to run a Fight Club type op where instead of replacing airplane safety cards we just insert Trump’s real, uncut words in places that his supporters would have to confront. Chamber luncheon brochure on every table? Open it up and you see parts of that rant.

The airplane safety card from Fight Club

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 07/12/2025

Reddit is full of evidence of this, but I just stumbled on this perfect specimen on r/QualityTacticalGear right now. You can probably smell this picture.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 27/10/2025

No amendment needed! This was the top priority outlined in CET's TMP. Also named in Bend's TSP! Targeted to roll out in near term with existing funding while Rt8, etc were mid-long term goals to come with expansion funds. I know Bend grows fast, but all of this was envisioned in the plan.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 02/09/2025

I asked and she still has the printed copy! Adjust how much broth you serve up for more or less soupiness, but this is really good without modification.

Lemon-Ginger Poached Halibut with Leeks & Spinach recipe by Jessica Bard

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 19/07/2025

Walmart is the most used bus stop in Bend, Oregon. It beats the next runner up by a whopping 60% more boardings. This stop is away from the store, on the main drag, in a small island in a gas station lot, surrounded by busy driveways on each side. You have to walk in traffic either direction.

Satellite image of the bus stop near Walmart in Bend.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 22/05/2025

I hear you, but head over to Flaming Geyser State Park near Black Diamond outside Seattle for underwhelming. I has use my own lighter to reignite it. There’s a flame down in that hole, I swear!

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 13/05/2025

“…and a lack of viable public transport…” Notice that word: viable. This is an advocacy project in England, but the sentiment is common. Just having a line on a map doesn’t mean the service actually works for people.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 25/12/2024

A day trip toward the coast has lots of options too. From Portland, I'd recommend a stop in Astoria with scenic hikes around Cape Disappointment. See Deadmans Cove, a WWII fort, and the area where Lewis and Clark saw the Pacific. Ecola State Park and Cannon Beach are another good option.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 08/12/2024

Enjoyed presenting on how to craft public transit programs to access the outdoors at this year's Oregon Outdoor Recreation Summit!

Eric Lint and Jovi Arellano presenting at the Oregon Outdoor Recreation Summit.

The presentation title: Transit to Trails: Celebrating Access to the Outdoors Via Public Transit

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