@catiewilkins.bsky.social
Award winning YA & children’s author. Comedy. Writing. New Edinburgh show 2025 WE’LL SEE tickets on sale now. YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME won a #Lollie2024
Parkrun bantz
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It’s giving radio hat
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Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
10.11.2025 13:15 — 👍 54 🔁 67 💬 2 📌 4Yay!
30.10.2025 21:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Perhaps a tiny bespoke one? Am taking it to Leicester comedy fest and looking at a few other places.
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Did you miss a chance to see my little face do jokes live? Despair no longer, I’m teaming up with ace @vixleyton.bsky.social and we are bringing our ace shows to London 🎉
30.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Sad times
30.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh yeah! Man, I need to add that 😄
30.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Haha! Fair. I’ll update it.. 😄
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Thanks!
22.10.2025 11:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks!
22.10.2025 11:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can anyone recommend a good podcast for kids about greek mythology?
22.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Phew! The magic of the 21st of October 🎉😄
21.10.2025 15:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Haha! Not yet… there’s still time 😄 hope you’re ok!
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My son got this Riddler in his Happy Meal and thought it was ‘Irish Batman.’ We’ve really lost touch with the old ways.
15.10.2025 06:28 — 👍 33 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Oh no! I’m sorry to hear this. And on such a sacred day. Hope it goes ok!
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Café Chaos has been selected for inclusion in BookTrust’s Great Books Guide for 2025! The guide is a wide-reaching resource aimed at teachers to recommend new books and encourage children to read for pleasure. A digital copy of the guide is available online 🎉
www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-re...
7yo is doing 100 star jumps to ‘prove he is not tired’
28.09.2025 17:31 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you! And noted.
27.09.2025 17:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What is the nutritional value of limescale? Am I getting more bang for my buck, or is it time to descale my kettle?
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They liked this on instagram, so sharing my little joke here
16.09.2025 13:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Changed my Waze sat nav to football commentator and at the end of the journey he said it had, overall, been a great performance.
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It's my publication day! Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos is out NOW. If you pop to your local indie you might just find a signed edition. And if you're quick? A free gift...
Want a personalised edition? Go here! www.papercatbookshop.co.uk/products/lok... @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
JFK feeling the same way about RFK Jr as the rest of us.
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Jackie Mitchell
Jackie Mitchell, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig
![A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared that women were unfit to play baseball as the game was "too strenuous."[5][12] However, Mitchell continued to play professionally, barnstorming with the House of David, a men's team famous for their very long hair and long beards. 13) While traveling with the House of David team, she would sometimes wear a fake beard for publicity. [14]
Mitchell retired in 1937 at the age of 23 after
becoming furious since her story about playing baseball was being used as something of a side show - once being asked to pitch while riding a donkey. [12] She refused to come out of retirement when the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League formed in 1943.[14 Major League Baseball would formally ban the signing of women to contracts on June 21, 1952, [12] The ban lasted until 1992 when Carey Schueler was drafted by the Chicago White Sox for the 1993 season. [15][16](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w6h6dprbvdrbaidpnbjhj7yi/bafkreifknnwtoau7qv2qfyxsxv5dr2l6rzhsy565vobctbezvfdgcdpiee@jpeg)
A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared that women were unfit to play baseball as the game was "too strenuous."[5][12] However, Mitchell continued to play professionally, barnstorming with the House of David, a men's team famous for their very long hair and long beards. 13) While traveling with the House of David team, she would sometimes wear a fake beard for publicity. [14] Mitchell retired in 1937 at the age of 23 after becoming furious since her story about playing baseball was being used as something of a side show - once being asked to pitch while riding a donkey. [12] She refused to come out of retirement when the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League formed in 1943.[14 Major League Baseball would formally ban the signing of women to contracts on June 21, 1952, [12] The ban lasted until 1992 when Carey Schueler was drafted by the Chicago White Sox for the 1993 season. [15][16
On April 2, 1931, the minor league Chattanooga Lookouts played an exhibition game against the New York Yankees. Seventeen-year-old Mitchell pitched, facing Babe Ruth as the first batter. Mitchell, a left-handed pitcher taught by Hall-of-Famer Dazzy Vance, used her signature drop ball to strike out Ruth on four pitches. Ruth reportedly threw down his bat and verbally abused the umpire after the called third strike. Mitchell then struck out Lou Gehrig on three pitches before being removed from the game. Ruth's sexist comments Following the strikeout, Ruth publicly dismissed Mitchell's skill, claiming the game was a fluke. Ruth was quoted in Chattanooga newspapers: "I don't know what's going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day".
17 year old Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931.
Ruth's fee fees were hurt and threw a tantrum on how women were too delicate to play baseball. Due to his toddler like antics, women were banned from being signed in the MLB 1992.
We should all know the name Ann Burgess.
Much of the techniques and methodology of modern day criminology stemmed from her: FBI Mind hunter profiling, how to interview victims, co-founding r*pe crisis centers & much more.
Today, she is working on a study about missing & murdered indigenous women.
