Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com
Union transit advocate ✊ | Electric Trolley / Zero Emissions | Parallel hybrid bike operator 🔋🚲 | Cyber Mechanic (DevOps/SRE:) | Proudly Cascadian 🌲🟦⬜️🟩
"The E-Line draws about 5,600 riders daily—nearly double what Metro Transit expected." www.fox9.com/news/6-month...
6 months in: Minneapolis E-Line nearly twice the riders Metro Transit expected
Metro Transit’s E-Line is marking six months on the road, and business owners are weighing in on the changes it has brought to their neighborhoods.
fox9.com
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
We burned billions and achieved nothing
Aron Lund@aronlund.bsky.social · yesterdayIran has now gobbled up nearly all U.S. ATACMS and PrSM ballistic missiles, plus half of Tomahawk cruise missiles and a very considerable share of the THAAD and Patriot interceptors, sources tell @reuters.com’s Erin Banco, Jonathan Landay, and Michael Stone. www.reuters.com/world/us-has...
The cops are really going to poison the well on automated traffic enforcement - which perhaps is the point considering how many of them get dinged for speeding in school zones and running red lights. bsky.app/profile/jaso...
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · yesterdayNew: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
24 hours for you and your friends to vote! Tell them to vote @ronpdavis.bsky.social and @niluj.bsky.social by 8pm IN A DROPBOX tomorrow!
Judge Judy Ain't Got Time For That
ALT: Judge Judy Ain't Got Time For That
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Cold urbanist take: ban right turns on red lights Hot urbanist take: ban left turns on unprotected greens
Get ready for the biggest Seattle transit restructure in years! Starting August 29, Metro and Sound Transit are adding, updating, and deleting dozens of routes across the region.
NEW: State House candidate Ron Davis is accusing Will Dreher's campaign of stealing yard signs as they believe to have captured on video. Dreher says that's not his staff in the video and says Davis's signs amount to removable litter anyway! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/state-h...
State House Candidate Ron Davis Accuses Opponent’s Campaign of Yard Sign Theft, Dreher Denies And Calls The Sign "Litter"
State House candidate Ron Davis is accusing his opponent Will Dreher’s campaign of stealing thousands of dollars of campaign yard signs — and over the weekend, they obtained video they believe proves ...
theburnerseattle.com
Class act, and a great piece of political education. Hannah is such a fantastic communicator - we would be lucky to have her in the State Senate.
Hannah Sabio-Howell@hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social · 2d agoA message to Brian Heywood - gtfo of our district. A message to everyone else: progressive lawmakers should be able to make a CLEAR case for how government is materially delivering on lower costs & better lives for working people. 1/
A message to Brian Heywood - gtfo of our district. A message to everyone else: progressive lawmakers should be able to make a CLEAR case for how government is materially delivering on lower costs & better lives for working people. 1/
Come to our election night party at Stoup tomorrow, we’ll have them there! 6pm-8:30pm actionnetwork.org/events/shaun...
Shaun & Hannah's Joint Election Night Party!
Join 43rd LD Rep. Shaun Scott and 43rd LD Senate candidate Hannah Sabio-Howell for an election night party, August 4 from 6pm-8:30pm! We'll celebrate the incredible grassroots movement and the hard wo...
actionnetwork.org
And there it is: Age Verification used to attack LGBTQ+ content. Knew this was coming. Book ban 2.0.
Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 7d agoThe Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.
This is such a relief. The whole industry has needed the Max family in working order for years now, badly. Glad that Boeing has been forced to turn things around. I hope the FAA does not let their standards lapse again.
photoJDL@photojdl.bsky.social · 2d agoThe 737 MAX 7 is cleared for delivery. Hard to believe but last time I saw this plane was 2020...and before that it's 2018 roll out. Looking forward to seeing them in the skies soon.
The 737 MAX 7 is cleared for delivery. Hard to believe but last time I saw this plane was 2020...and before that it's 2018 roll out. Looking forward to seeing them in the skies soon.
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has signed the SEPA reform bill into law.
The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · last wk.A 5-4 Seattle City Council vote yesterday means city-level appeals that have delayed significant citywide zoning changes in the past will be extinguished. Conventional appeal options to Superior Court or the state growth hearings board will remain. Story: www.theurbanist.org/seattle-coun...
Yo Seattle SMOKE INCOMING. Worst likely Wed-Thu. Exposure to wildfire smoke harms your health—don't tough it out. Air purifiers are your friend. Many free apps show you local air quality (AQI). Exerting yourself outdoors when it's high is a bad call. Be safe! emeraldcityweather.com/heat-wildfir...
Heat and wildfire smoke set to return to Seattle and Western Washington this week - Emerald City Weather Blog
(I know this is super long but it’s a lot to discuss, but here’s a TL;DR/ “Too Long;
emeraldcityweather.com
To state the obvious, I’m sure this payment is a strategy to avoid spending much more on litigation. Still wild to get paid two years’ salary to go away when you weren’t even police chief for that long.
To state the obvious, every city in the US is under siege and held hostage by its own police departments
Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 5d agoTo state the obvious, I’m sure this payment is a strategy to avoid spending much more on litigation. Still wild to get paid two years’ salary to go away when you weren’t even police chief for that long.
Why are Californians so invested in electing Will Dreher to the Washington State legislature? And why are so few people in his own district (46th) donating to him?
Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 5d agoI read his public disclosures, so I know most of Will Dreher's money comes from out of state, with a surprising number from folks at AI companies. What I don't know is whether Will Dreher is an industry plant. I have no idea if he is an industry plant. If he's an industry plant, I have no knowledge.
total seattle tree acreage lost to multifamily development from 216-2021, when 46,000 net new apartments were constructed: 24 acres. just 24.
Chim ☭@chimmysthoughts.bsky.social · 5d agoConservative estimate: 257,219,531.3 metric tons of CO2 Equivalent to Annual Emissions of 60,805,751 cars/year. From joteo.net/ecology-calc...
In 1944, MN teenager Jeanne Gibson went to work in the Seattle shipyards welding destroyers for the Allies. She then moved to Juneau and joined the Army Transportation Corps supplying ships in the Pacific. She later got a Master’s and her pilots license. RIP, hero. 🫡 www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...
This project would thrash Juneau’s “out the road”, turning the whole area into a mining corridor and the crown jewel of Berners Bay from a wild and accessible local recreation treasure to a mining ore terminal site. Just adding permanent lighting alone would suck. #AlaskaSky, this is a bad idea.
Never trust people who can’t admit when they’re wrong.
Scapegoats are emotionally cheaper than systems. Blaming the left asks nothing of you. It feels good and righteous and right. Asking whether your institutions and your party failed you requires dismantling beliefs you have spent your lifetime building. That is emotionally expensive.
Yeah the box they use for the airshow has a huge impact on so much of the area, and especially the south side, a traditionally poorer/under invested area.
Guys, check it out! I'm on the mayor's private jet! (in an economy seat a packed-to-the-gills 737-900 with 179 other pax) - average Daily Mail headline
This post was like catnip to me, and I was going to give you all some quick-and-dirty measurements but got as far as calculating carbon monoxide released during taxiing and then gave up. So you get: each F/A-18 burns something like 4,000-5,000 lbs of fuel per hour of flight fuck the blue angels
Noah 🚎@noahsbwilliams.com · 5d ago"We do apologize for the delay. We've got the blue angels in the air causing trouble." - a gate agent at SeaTac just now One of many reasons to reject them. The emissions impacts of the jets taking over our airspace aren't just the fighters themselves. Other traffic is jammed up and holding.
"We do apologize for the delay. We've got the blue angels in the air causing trouble." - a gate agent at SeaTac just now One of many reasons to reject them. The emissions impacts of the jets taking over our airspace aren't just the fighters themselves. Other traffic is jammed up and holding.