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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 15/09/2026

That bus he's talking about, by the way? It was a 2004 DE60LF that Metro special ordered the year before this album came out to lower the emissions that kids had to breath in. We care here. Love my city, Seattle 🥲

2766 - an original 2004 DE60LF - rests patiently at 6th Ave S & S Royal Brougham Way bearing an Out Of Service headsign. This bus is preserved by MEHVA, the Metro Employees Historic Vehicles Association and can be ridden by the public during some excursions

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 02/09/2026

It's located on the left side of this photo, same as the air intake.

A photo of Noah on bike in a high-vis as he guides a stranded Metro bus around a demonstration

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 01/09/2026

BlueSky, I need some help recognizing a plate. This jeep driver just caused a miss-and-run. Cut me off turning east without looking at Elliott & Lenora. I had the green in the bike lane; he was supposed to yield. I had to brake hard enough to go partially over the bars.

A red jeep with an unknown state's blue license plate, 03974 with the small letters "CB" stacked vertically as a prefix

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 01/08/2026

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

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 29/07/2026

I called some of my neighbors racist for supporting the SEPA bonus appeals process. It was correct to do so. They are. Some of them don't want Black and brown people to live in their neighborhoods, and they want to pretend that this extra bonus Seattle Process™️ appeal is about environmentalism.

Good afternoon CMs,

Noah Williams from West Seattle

- I was born in Alaska, a state where I was forced out of, because of, amongst other things, the cost of living.
- And growing up there, I saw a lot of environmentally destructive deregulation for profit.
- This bill isn't that.
- This is keeping the environmental regulations and allowing the regulators to enforce them.
- One of the most salient and damning criticisms of this county is that we've trained a nation of lawyers, not engineers.
- If you pass this bill, without amendment B, you'll have legislation with strong environmental regulations remaining in place.
- The bill eliminates the *private* right of action, which has been abused over and over again, by racist NIMBYs who don't give a damn about the environment they try hide behind.
- If we want to start undoing the damage done by the decades of _deeply malicious and racist_ "keep *those* people out of *here*" policies, we have to pass this bill, and do so without amendment B.
- To the old white people advocating the continuation of this policy?
- I see you, and I hear you, and I am deeply disappointed in you because of it.

Thank you, Council.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 26/07/2026

Achievement unlocked: Double-Double at Timmy's ☕️🇨🇦 I'm a fan! Thanks to @markshawtoronto.bsky.social for showing me the way!

A double-double (large coffee with two cream two sugar) at Tim Horton's

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 22/07/2026

Talk about responsive councilmembers who hear constituent feedback: AMR actually listened to what I testified in real-time and integrated it into her remarks. This was my testimony this morning:

Good morning Councilmemebrs,

As a taxpayer who does not have kids, there is no better use of my taxes than feeding those that are hungry, *no questions asked*, because it's morally right. It's also fiscally responsible, because we know you end up with better test scores and more funding when kids have reliable access to food.

Imagine means testing other core essentials in schools. Textbooks, paper, pencils. "You must be this poor and your parents fill out a form for a pencil". It'd be humiliating for the kids and a waste of administrative time and effort.

The children aren't going hungry because we feed too many of their peers, they're going hungry because we spend an absurd amount of our budget on the police.

Last session you passed an expansion to the FreshBucks program which was awesome! Now more families will be able to have fresh food from Washington farms and fewer kids will go hungry. Keep going that way! Feed all the kids!

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 12/07/2026

An interesting method of copper theft mitigation 🤔

Electrical return lines encased in concrete below a rail line

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 04/07/2026

My Mayor Muslim! My bagels Jewish! Immigrants make this nation thrive! Knicks in 5! Happy 250, NY!

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 03/07/2026

Good afternoon, United fliers! This is a public service announcement that the USB-C ports in the United Next cabin product are slow (15W). I'm on a 1 y/o 737 Max 9. Make sure to bring a large 120v brick with multiple ports if your needs require inflight power for devices larger than a phone!

A screenshot of a macOS System Information screen showing a 15W trickle charge

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 01/07/2026

Hello and good evening from my favorite datacenter, where the wonderful staff always help you read from any media available 🥰

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 22/06/2026

In today's edition of "incredible public servants"... Check out this masterful mechanical contortion managed by Metro Transit workers to tie trolley wires! They're maneuvering themselves in a multi-ton machine under a meter from the matrix of wires on Madison!

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 22/06/2026

Next Stop: Pike. Street. West Lake Tunnel Station. West Lake Center. Monorail.

View through the graffiti-scratched plexiglass of a bus of 3rd Ave, with a trolley in the background

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 19/06/2026

Good afternoon from the 605 - Metro Match Day Shuttle!

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 16/06/2026

Good evening, friends! As your resident cyber mechanic I'd like to give you a simple demonstration of why planet-killing datacenters are themselves a financial bubble. This demo is running Gemma 4:26b on an M4 Pro Mac Mini, with a TDP of 140W. As you can see, small models are extremely capable.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 14/06/2026

Well there's something you don't see every day! www.trainorders.com/discussion/r...

A Caltrain F40PH in a consist with a Siemens Charger on Capitol Corridor

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 12/06/2026

Happy Friday, Seattle! This made me so happy yesterday! A whole family passed me on bikes on our beautiful new protected bike path on E Marginal Way! Signs of a healthy society 💙🤍💚

Several bikes in front of a pretty dusk backdrop riding along the E Marginal Way bike path. Notable are the trees planted along the left side in a wide (30-foot-plus) grassy median.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 09/06/2026

That was literally the reason she ran, and by god she's doing it!

TRU members post from Katie Wilson reading:

Hi All,

If you were at our February Membership Meeting you know this already, but others may not: I'm going to be launching a campaign for mayor, likely next week. Please don't post this on social media or anything like that, because it's not yet public (although it's also not exactly a secret).

This was not something I was remotely contemplating before the special election on Feb. 11th. The landslide victory of Prop 1A brought home to me how important it is that we have a mayor who believes in social housing. (I wrote about that here.) Through much further reflection and conversation, my longstanding aversion to considering running for office fell away as I began to think about how this could be a legitimate part of a larger organizing strategy.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 03/06/2026

(un) fun fact: there are Jeep Wagoneers out there with 9-liter engines. That's the same size engine we use in these:

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 03/06/2026

Video of the vehicle for additional context:

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 03/06/2026

Hey y'all, there's been reporting about the vehicle that drove onto the tracks saying it was a rental. I don't believed that is correct. I walked up to the vehicle after it was pulled off the track and took a picture of the stickers:

A photo of the windshield of the stickers on the car that drove onto the tracks, including a Costco membership, a Jewish community center membership, and a Mister sticker

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 01/06/2026

Check it out, those European-style raised crosswalks are entering service at Thomas & Taylor St

A raised crosswalk to the shared path E/W

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 01/06/2026

Holy SDOT, Batman, what a great way to move! Seattle Center now has dedicated pedestrian and bike access from 4/5 sides, including a wonderful new shared path on Thomas St! What a difference a few dollars invested into @seattledot.bsky.social can make!

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 24/05/2026

Pedestrian streets are fatal to business! When this many people shop at once, they'll run out of inventory!

The highly patronized pedestrian corridor extending up from the north end of 1st Ave through Seattle Center, during Folklife Festival 2026. Each vendor has several customers being served or in line.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 24/05/2026

I can't express how much it means to me, living in a city that does this. This really is the whole point. We should design our society so that children can grow up safely riding bikes and splashing in the water and enjoying the beautiful world. We've got a lot of work to do. But we'll get there!

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 24/05/2026

Btw! I witnessed this woman lurch her car at a cyclist that wasn't getting out of her way fast enough for her liking, and give him about 5 straight seconds of horn punishment. So I can attest that she's a true asshole, and I hope she got a flat on the way home :)

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 15/05/2026

Sometimes, it's the simple things I'm grateful for. Cruciferous vegetables. Carrots. Onions. Tofu. Garlic. Olive oil. Sea salt. We could sustain our entire population like this, in a very healthy manner, if there was a little less greed, you know...

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 27/04/2026

Thanks for the engagement I guess, clanker, but you're already blocked 😂

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 27/04/2026

I love this city so much...more everyday 🥹🫶

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 25/04/2026

I find this tasteless, and, honestly disgusting. Shamelessly plastering a dead man's face on a series of for-profit advertisements that airline employees have to walk by every day? Very poor judgment, this should be taken down.

A "#SkyKing Panic In The Sky" poster on an advertising screen at SeaTac/Airport link station

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 17/04/2026

Good afternoon, Seattle! I love our beautiful city 🫶🌊

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 15/04/2026

Happy rainy tuesday from a quiet electric Gillig ☔️🚌🔋 The noise of the wheels splashing through the water is the loudest thing on the bus!

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 14/04/2026

Did you know that under Metro's guidelines, this wouldn't meet criteria for removal? Metro's policy is to remove *hateful* graffiti - this is the opposite. I would never suggest putting swear words on a bus, of course. But I can't argue with the messaging :D

A "Fuck ICE" sticker on a divider panel on a Metro bus

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 10/04/2026

From the same bike ride this afternoon 😂🙃😭

A flag on an apartment balcony reading "Fuck Trump" & "If You Like Trump Fuck You Too"

Raspberry Pi 5 starter kits at $190, $270, and $320 on a shelf at Best Buy

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 19/03/2026

Night bus vibes 🚌🌧️✨

The interior of a King County Metro route 21 bus as it streaks through the rainy night past S. Atlantic St.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 18/03/2026

Seeing these coaches climb the hill on battery power is impressive. This is Spring St, which features of the steepest grades in the city (up to 22%). Operators report they're slower off-wire, but I'm glad they're capable.

An XT40 waits on Spring St below 4th Avenue

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 18/03/2026

Hello and good afternoon from a King County Metro trolleybus! 🚎 #4318 is a 2014 New Flyer XT40 with upgraded ESS (battery) range. These operators are making full use of it to conduct qualification runs on routes 2(13). They will return to trolley service, along with Rt 49, in the coming weeks!

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 12/03/2026

Fight the Empire! ...find joy where you can! 🧸💥🐓

A Lego Star Wars Endor set with an AT-ST, a speeder bike, a pair of imperials, and Wicket, the intrepid Ewok

The set assembled and set on a shelf lamp

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 09/03/2026

I'd call this a good day! Solidarity, sisters!

Protestors at the Women's March round the corner of 12th Avenue E & E Thomas St under beautiful flora bearing a variety of antifascist signs

A beautiful sunset taken from SW Orleans St facing westbound in West Seattle

The Space Needle seen under partly cloudy skies from Queen Anne

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 06/03/2026

seattle fam...i think we live in the coolest place in the country

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 04/03/2026

Good evening, Transit Riders! 🗣️ C. Line. To. West Seattle. Alaska Junction 🗣️ Next Stop: Columbia Street King County Courthouse Civic Center

Noah makes a peace sign while sitting behind the center wheel on the sideways chair of an articulated Metro bus with a RapidRide red floor

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 01/03/2026

I'm a fan of this @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social fella, and it was my honor to ride the Zohramp this weekend! This is a great example of responsive local government: 1. Temp solution to fix the immediate safety issue. 2. Plan a capital project to replace it with a well-engineered one soon.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 28/02/2026

Hello and good morning from Newark Liberty International Airport! This is a true multi-modal hub, connecting air and electrified regional rail. We can and should build more hubs like this!

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 15/02/2026

Hello and good evening from Santa Cruz Metro 0123, one of 5 2023 Gillig Low Floor 40' BEVs ordered as a pilot for Highway 17 express service 🔋🚌 If you've ever wondered what these sound like in highway service - here it is! The drivetrain is quiet but still sounds a bit like a transmission at speed.

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