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At the Mumbai airport security check yesterday, a CRPF cop raised my flute case and said- ‘ye aapka hai? Kuch baat karni hai’

Considering my terrible history with airport security all over the world, my heart sank. I was like here we go again, i just hope I don’t miss my flight.
He asked me-‘aapki flight abhi hai ki time hain aapke paas?’

Again, petrified, I said ‘abhi hai’

He said, ‘acha theek hai koi baat nahi’

That’s when I asked ‘kyu?’

He said ‘ye bansuri hai na? Main bhi bajata hoon. Matlab bajata kya hoon, seekh raha hoon. Aapne kaha se seekha?
I said ‘main bhi seekh hi raha hoon.’

He said ‘maine c scale mein liya hai. Kaise practise kar sakte hain?’

So I told him the usual- ‘sargam bajaiye, sirf sa bajaiye, long note practice kijiye.’

He asked me ‘aapka koi YouTube channel hai kya?’
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Let's talk reality.

COVID creates this very situation: your closest hospital can't take more patients so you ambulance to a distant hospital and there you die.

Hurricanes create this very situation: flooding destroys your closest hospital's emergency generators and...
Let's continue to talk reality

Women die ALL THE DAMN TIME because hospital ERs won't take them seriously

Here's a story from THIS year where... oh hell, just read the headline:
amp.usatoday.com/amp/4446314002
Let's CONTINUE to talk reality.

Black people in general die needlessly in hospital ERs. Here's CCTV footage of a Black woman who died in ER. She laid dead for HOURS.

A nurse got fired for manipulating her ER records in a coverup.
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1. « Je vois des “e” commencés par la droite, des “t” partant du bas, des stylos mal tenus, des mains qui souffrent, des ­cahiers pas jolis », s’inquiète Delphine Guichard, enseignante de CM1-CM2
#thread #écriture #école
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C'est marrant, c'est exactement ce que j'ai entendu toute ma scolarité. Ma prof de français de 3e m'a fait lire une de mes copies moi-même parce qu'elle avait "du mal à lire [mes] pattes de mouche". Ma prof de bio de Tle m'a demandé si je fournissais la loupe pour me lire.
2. « Cela a empiré depuis […] 1992. Les élèves ont des écritures perturbantes pour le lecteur, pensent qu’il est normal de souffrir, et sont si lents pour prendre des notes que, même en terminale, je dois parler à un rythme de dictée », regrette […], prof. de lettres au lycée
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