Aliceonboard

@aliceonboard@sfba.social
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Former Assistant Public Librarian, Current Apparel Design Student, Californian, American, 🇺🇸 fiercly woke and resistant to hate mongering and colonization, Pro immigration, ♡ DEI ♡ democracy, freedom, science, ideas. Hobbies: Paddleboarding, choral singing, artist/artisan, mostly sewing lately, fashion designer in training, poetry, earth, flora and fauna, mental health.
Creed: There is enough for everyone to thrive.
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@CarlataOld @GottaLaff my complements on that Nick name. 👌

#trumprevenge

Is it not fishy that Adam Schiff appeared on #LateNightwithStephenColbert right before CBS cancelled the show?

UK: London library forced to briefly close after fox 'made itself comfortable' inside

'The Day a Fox Came to the Library' is a kids' book waiting to be written...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/richmond-twickenham-library-foxes-b1238568.html

Upper pic, DJ tRump...
'See ya later, Alligator!'
Lower pic, a big alligator,
'At your trial, paedophile!'
@thetnholler.bsky.social that's his penance for stating the files ought to be made public....
#SavePBS
#pbs
#uspol
Wow.
I know, it's been a new loss everyday with this regime. People are being disappeared and people will die without food aid and healthcare. It's impossible to get through the grief of all it.
As for PBS, it's so personal for me. As a very lonely and poor latchkey kid of the 60's and 70's with a divorced mom who really didn't make it home many nights, I literally depended on PBS tv to keep myself from freaking out. There only a very few channels on tv, and that was my only human contact, aside from wild kids outside.
Mr Rogers became my dad figure. Julia Child inspired me to cook for me and my brother, even just cheese and crackers.
It was always on. It kept us company.
It did the same when my own child was little. We were too poor to afford cable tv, so there was our entertainment, children's programming and educational programs to get through the housebound tedium of early motherhood. I chose to delay going back to work, but that meant no money.I still need PBS. It's my family.
@davidaugust
PLEASE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
@jeffjarvis Life in the Lil Donny timeline sucks shit bags
@rejinl Exactly that.
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So an alliance of 20+ tow truck operators have come together in #LosAngeles. They’re having people follow ICE vehicles around, actively reporting their locations.

As soon as ICE parks their car ANYWHERE, usually improperly… the tow trucks quickly swoop in, tag the ICE vehicle for illegal parking, and tow their cars away as quickly as possible. LAPD is letting it happen, unchallenged.

They’re estimating over 30+ ICE vehicles being towed in the last week alone.

I love LA.
I really do.

“Oh well I fact checked”
Bitch no you didn’t.

Stop playing in my fucking face. You people are so desperate to dismiss the actual LIVED EXPERIENCES OF A BLACK WOMAN BECAUSE SNOPES SAID SO?

It’s happened 3 times in Pasadena ALONE in the last WEEK. I can come up with more screenshots and videos if you’d like to play dumb and disrespectful.

It’s not a rumor. It’s an active fucking movement. Stop believing snopes over PEOPLE OF COLOR TELLING YOU WHATS HAPPENING.

Another one, just in case anyone else still wants to play in my fucking face.
@ErickaSimone "Work trucks towed by ICE" is not the same thing as "ICE vehicle towed by some tow truck operator". Do you have more faces I can play in?

@barubary on the bed are ice work trucks.

If you’re a fucking nazi, just say that so we can embarrass you.

@ErickaSimone That's the opposite of what the caption says. (And what even are "ice work trucks"?)

@barubary in the comments of her video, she clarifies what she means. You can literally see ICE BRANDED TRUCKS ON TOW BEDS.

Are you okay? Here. Since you hate black people so much and can’t be bothered to check my profile for multiple screenshots, here’s a white woman telling you exactly what she’s doing. I’ll post the direct link to her video since clearly, you’re having issues with comprehension.

@ErickaSimone I did check your profile, but all I saw was three screenshots (posted repeatedly). One is irrelevant (it's just a picture of some white person*), one seems to be the opposite of what you're saying (trucks being towed by ICE), and one is a definite maybe.

I'm eagerly awaiting the direct video links.

* Edit: Despite what Ericka says, the person in the video is not a woman. Their profile says "genderfluid" and (on Instagram) "pronouns: they/them".

@barubary @ErickaSimone hey Oriel. Shut up and believe the lady. Or. Just shut up. Either way, you’re not winning anything by playing the stupid troll.
@chris @barubary oh he’s salty and blocked me. Par for course for antiblack sociopaths who waited all day just to harass me. lmaoooo

@chris @ErickaSimone Uh.

"I’ll post the direct link to her video"
"OK, I'm waiting"
(1 hour passes)
"Just shut up, you stupid white Nazi-supporting troll"
???

(I know you didn't call me a white Nazi supporter, but she did. And ... now she's claiming I blocked her. Which I didn't, because I can see her calling me an "antiblack sociopath" (wtf?).)

@barubary @ErickaSimone do you support ICE?
@chris @ErickaSimone Hell no. They can all get fucked.
@barubary @ErickaSimone great. Then just believe the lady and go to bed. Bye.
@chris @ErickaSimone Go to bed? At 10am?!
@barubary @ErickaSimone maybe you’ll act less dumb if you get a little more shut eye.
@chris not sure what is going on here but if your signing on to whatever this is, it’s not a great look.
@lazarus7 what is not a great look?
@chris read that accounts replies with an clear mind if your uncertain.
As for me, I’ve unfollowed some folks and am off to bed.
@chris I read this again today with a rested mind and I think I made the correct decisions.
@barubary @ErickaSimone here's the direct video, it's just a lady walking down a sidewalk flashing a peace sign. i'd like to see this proven true, but this ain't it https://www.tiktok.com/@therabbitgemini/video/7519614720597429534
TikTok - Make Your Day

@ErickaSimone It's been a full day and you still haven't posted any links. I've been able to find one of them, though: https://www.tiktok.com/@therabbitgemini/video/7519614720597429534

Things I've learned so far:

  • The caption says "Was able to afford cali rent by reporting illegally parked ICE cars to the tow companies... They pay commission #fafo", but the video is just a person walking by a street.
  • Nothing in the video itself relates to ICE.
  • The hash tags include "#funny #meme", so I'm not 100% clear on whether the post is just a joke or "just a joke" for plausible deniability.
  • Even if we take everything in this post at face value, it doesn't confirm what you originally said, namely that an alliance of 20+ tow truck operators is actively following ICE vehicles around.
  • The person is not a "white woman". According to their profile, they're genderfluid (pronouns: they/them, as found on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therabbitgemini/).

Now that I know the screenshots are from TikTok, I'll look for the other videos later.

PS: You seem to have quietly deleted one of your posts where you falsely claimed I had blocked you. But the other one is still up: https://mastodon.social/@ErickaSimone/114861704437037334

TikTok - Make Your Day

@ErickaSimone Found it! The slideshow you got that screenshot from is https://www.tiktok.com/@gemgem526/photo/7526195999300177183.

"In the comments of her video, she clarifies what she means"? My sister in Christ, that video only has 4 comments (as seen in your screenshot) and none of them are by the uploader. (I've attached a screenshot below.)

The full description reads:

Here is two pictures of work trucks that are being towed by ice. The drivers of the vehicle were working and they decided to take them in because they’re criminals. You know criminals who work hard pay their taxes raise their kids and do good things for the community.. I mean that could be anybody that could be your neighbors or whatever and the only thing that’s different is their skin color and the fact that they’ll actually work. I know more white people in the south without jobs that live off the government than I do Hispanics. #fypシ゚viral🖤tiktok☆♡🦋myvideo #hispanicsatwork #hispanics #lazypeople #pickfirlds #tx #dallas #ididnotvoteforthis #trumpsucks

Which confirms what was apparent from your screenshot: These are some company's work trucks. ICE came, arrested the drivers, and had the trucks towed. This all happened in Dallas, TX, nowhere near Los Angeles. (I've attached the full pictures below as well.)

@ErickaSimone Let's count the direct lies you've told me:

  • "I'll post the direct link to her video" ­– You never posted a link (and it's not a "her").
  • "on the bed are ice work trucks" – Nope.
  • "You can literally see ICE BRANDED TRUCKS ON TOW BEDS" – No, you can't. And since when does ICE use a diagonal green stripe as branding? I can't quite make out the company name, but it clearly doesn't say ICE.
  • "in the comments of her video, she clarifies what she means" – There are no comments by her and there was no need to "clarify" anything; the video description is quite clear.
  • "he blocked me" – I never did.
  • From where I'm sitting, it looks like you jumped on TikTok, searched for something like "ice trucks towed", and posted screenshots from the first three videos you found without checking anything. Which is why these screenshots look so unrelated to your main story of "an alliance of 20+ tow truck operators in Los Angeles is actively following ICE vehicles around to immediately tow them".

    • The first video says it shows an ICE vehicle getting towed for illegally blocking access to St John's hospital. Does not seem unlikely, but you don't need a horde of ICE hunters for that to happen. (Also, it says Oxnard, not LA, but I'm not familiar with the geography there. Maybe it's around the corner?)
    • The second video doesn't actually show anything happening; it's just a caption saying someone got paid enough to pay rent for reporting illegally parked ICE vehicles. Funny, maybe true, but says nothing about a tow operator alliance following ICE around. (It also doesn't mention a location.) You don't know the video creator and didn't bother to check their profile, so you misgendered them. Repeatedly.
    • The third video (actually a two-picture slide show) is completely out in left field. It claims to show ICE towing some work vans after having arrested the drivers in Dallas, TX. There is no connection to Los Angeles or ICE vehicles being towed.

    When I pointed out the issues with the last video, you immediately jumped down my throat. You called me a Nazi, said I hated black people, said I had issues with comprehension (hah), and doubled down by just making shit up: The ICE branding (that doesn't exist), the video creator's "clarifying" comments (that don't exist), and me blocking you (never happened). Keep in mind, I never even questioned your original post. All I did was point out that one of your screenshots didn't support your story because it showed something unrelated. You could've simply said "oh yeah, I misread the description, my mistake" and stopped posting that picture.

    It seems you've decided to interpret any sort of questioning or criticism as a personal attack, then generalize from "attacking" you to hating all black people. Because clearly the only reason someone would not immediately agree with everything you say, no matter what, is because they hate black people. Yeah, right.

    @ErickaSimone but that says ice is towing work trucks...
    @n0ctilucent in the comments of that video, she clarifies she meant the people are having ice trucks towed. On the bed of the truck, you clearly see ICE branded vans being towed. I’ll send you a link if you’re on TikTok. Or you can look thru the whole post and find the link.
    @ErickaSimone here's the description and comments, i'm not seeing what you're describing... how can you tell those vans are ICE branded?

    @n0ctilucent you’ll probably have to scroll down harder than that. They can’t pin comments to then top like instagram. It goes by popularity then date. And who knows how it works on desktop.

    Next, here’s some photos of ICE vehicles. Note the green decal (for city patrol) and blue (for coastline patrol). I can tell because I live in Los Angeles and I’m actively watching it happen.

    Funny you can find your way TikTok but don’t know how to use hashtags to find #icebeingtowed. Hrmmm.

    @n0ctilucent since you’re on TikTok and it’s clear you know how to use the internet, I suggest you take some time there and on instagram to scan though the hashtags for yourself instead of asking me to do the labor for you.

    I know you’re eager to prove me wrong. Nevertheless. Womp womp.

    You take care.

    @ErickaSimone tried searching those tags and the closest thing to evidence that i'm finding is the hospital incident. nothing proving the roaming gangs of tow truck drivers. i think you may have fallen for a hoax
    @ErickaSimone Aw rats. Reblogged this before fact-checking. I do wish it were true.
    @epicdemiologist @ErickaSimone According to Snopes, it started as a satirical post but went viral. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/la-tow-truck-drivers-ice/
    No evidence LA tow truck drivers are targeting ICE vehicles

    The story was spread by a satirical Facebook account.

    Snopes
    @hal_pomeranz @epicdemiologist yeah we’re not using snopes as a verifying source on this. We also definitely not telling people in Los Angeles what we’ve been seeing first hand. It’s happened in Pasadena alone 3 times in the last week.
    @ErickaSimone @epicdemiologist I shall be most delighted if this turns out to be a thing
    @hal_pomeranz @epicdemiologist it is indeed an active thing
    @springdiesel @ErickaSimone @hal_pomeranz @epicdemiologist I also boosted too quickly. I am not in LA so I don't know what is happening on the ground. But I wasn't able to independently fact check this, and I usually try to do that before boosting.

    @davidruffner @springdiesel @hal_pomeranz @epicdemiologist

    “I am not in LA so I don't know what is happening on the ground.”

    You sure as fuck do not know anything about Los Angeles, and should have stopped there.

    @hal_pomeranz @epicdemiologist @ErickaSimone Hopefully someone will take it seriously and start actually doing it ("What a great idea, I think I'll help.")

    @hal_pomeranz @epicdemiologist @ErickaSimone

    Snopes was sloppy. Ibrahim details exactly how the "investigation" was done and it does not involve contacting witnesses, analyzing images, nothing like that. They asked ICE and they searched for MSM news and that was the extent.

    Looks like Snopes has succumbed to enshittification.

    @springdiesel @hal_pomeranz @epicdemiologist @ErickaSimone “They asked ICE”

    “Hey ICE: is it true that you’re getting your asses handed to you in a way that is both easy for those aware of it to do and incredibly funny?”
    “…definitely not.”
    “Well that settles it!”

    @epicdemiologist I’m not trying to be rude, but I do wish you’d shut the fuck up and let people in LA tell you first hand of what they’re seeing happen in LA, along with SEVERAL VIRAL VIDEOS FLOATING AROUND OF IT HAPPENING.
    @epicdemiologist I can keep fucking going. Since you’re so eager to tell me what the fuck is happening in my city.
    @ErickaSimone @epicdemiologist did a bunch of stuff get deleted or something? I'm only seeing their one reply.
    @ErickaSimone OK, I apologize for the comment. ABC News in San Diego was my source.

    @epicdemiologist I promise I’m not trying to be rude, you know I appreciate your contributions, but for the love of fuckin god. Why would you believe a right leaning site over someone in LA actively watching. WHY.

    Do you understand how weird that is?

    @epicdemiologist I’m not asking to win. Im asking for you to use your brain instead of a website, and for basic human understanding.

    Can you do that.

    @ErickaSimone Look. I made a mistake. I admitted that I made a mistake. I apologized. You can stop now.

    @epicdemiologist Stop what. Asking for you to be understanding on a broader level? Stop asking you for basic humanity?

    Bro. You are not a victim. Get out your feelings. There’s no progress in there.

    @ErickaSimone
    I don't think they're trying to be a victim. I think they're just trying to apologize and say they're sorry for the argument. Tone is hard to do in text.
    @cshlan no. The tone is rooted in self victimization. And I’m not trying to harm. So again. You don’t get to not believe black women because snopes said so and then not be accountable as to why.
    @ErickaSimone Amazing!
    @ApostateEnglishman I hate that we’ve entered the tow truck companies bieing on the right side of history timeline, but here we are.
    @ErickaSimone @ApostateEnglishman pitting evil against evil is always a valuable strategy.
    @ErickaSimone this, along with the thunderous fact check, made my day.
    @unsafelyhotboots if you hit the right hashtags on your social platforms, you will see it happening. People are bragging about doing it. lol.