Tony Moran
tonymoran.bsky.social
Tony Moran
@tonymoran.bsky.social
Exiled Stokie in Wolverhampton. One wife, two kids, three cats. Aspiring author. Loves music. Plays guitar badly. Works in PR. Supports Stoke City.
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June 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This is an amazing facility that will undoubtedly produce groundbreaking research to tackle a looming global crisis. Congratulations to all involved! www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/un...
May 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Wise words, well written. A beacon of sanity in these crazy times from @hasanpatel.com eaworldview.com/2025/05/uk-n...
Why The UK Needs More Gary Linekers - EA WorldView
"Gary Lineker has made his choice. And like all heroes, he will not be silenced. Truth spoken clearly cuts through even the loudest noise."
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May 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Earth Heritage is now a research theme within our International Centre for Heritage & we have funding to develop it further. We’re keen to hear from people interested in research partnerships in heritage, geotourism, geoethics, geoconservation & related areas. www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
Earth heritage - University of Birmingham
Earth heritage comprises the landforms, rocks, fossils, minerals and soils that surround us and the ways that people understand, value, are inspired.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Ace in spades.
May 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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That’s right. 🇺🇦
March 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Look closely.
February 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Sometimes, you just have to state the obvious. Manchester United fans - find out how your club can achieve success by being more like Stoke City wp.me/p4KPY9-4J
Solving Amorim’s conundrum: Be more Stoke
The Red Devils, The Busby Babes, The Heathens, The Reds, or simply ‘United’. There have been many names for Manchester United during their 147-year history, since the club was founded as Newton Hea…
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February 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Lycra. It's a wonderful thing. I've blogged about the start of my cycling adventures. moranmoranmoran.wordpress.com/2025/01/26/a...
Almost everything looks better in lycra
So, two years ago I bought a bicycle. Nothing strange about that – people buy bicycles all the time. I’d last bought one ten years previously – an old Marin mountain bike acquired for £35 from a fr…
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January 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Excellent video that debunks some of the myths around 'Chibson' guitars! youtu.be/G9vyF0m0OY0?...
Just How Terrible Is A Chibson Guitar?
YouTube video by Milehouse Studios
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January 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It's been a while, but I've started blogging again. Can AI convey the highs and lows of supporting a football club as tragically inconsistent as Stoke City? moranmoranmoran.wordpress.com/2025/01/19/a...
AI and the existential ennui of supporting Stoke City
So, it’s January 2025 and hurtling into the brave new world of Artificial Intelligence, it seems humanity is terrified and excited in equal measure. It seems that AI increases in power and complexi…
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January 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Very funny that the more Elon speaks, the more people hate him
Elon Musk has become even more unpopular in the UK following his interventions on child grooming gangs

Favourable: 20% (+2 from Nov 2024)
Unfavourable: 71% (+7)
Net: -51 (down 5pts)

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
January 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Love this photo. Well done @tomcannon.bsky.social @stokecityfc.bsky.social on an excellent smash and grab against Sunderland!
December 30, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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December 22, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Must have been bad where you were @hasanpatel.bsky.social
There was only a light sprinkling of snow in Warley Woods, but higher parts of the Black Country got significantly more snow overnight. Here's a great photo of the snow-covered peaks of the Rowley Hills in Tvidale this morning.
December 22, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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There was only a light sprinkling of snow in Warley Woods, but higher parts of the Black Country got significantly more snow overnight. Here's a great photo of the snow-covered peaks of the Rowley Hills in Tvidale this morning.
December 22, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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Watch this inspirational call to action for us all 🔥

“What we need right now is for everyone to stand up and have courage. We need everyone to stand up and say, ‘I am not going to back down to this bully.’ We need people to be warriors for democracy.” @marcelias.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Back in the day, when football was less up its own arse. A great read! pulisvsbojan.substack.com/p/deck-john-...
Deck John Halls With Boughs of Holly
Despatches from the 2004 Stoke City Christmas Dinner
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December 20, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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Jeremy Vine commenting on the Jacob Rees-Mogg reality show, "It's brilliant, isn't it"

Marina Purkiss, "No it's not.. I'm so sick of the media, whether it's that, or I'm a Celeb, sanitising people who harmed the country"

Well said 👏
December 16, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says

“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”

Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR

youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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December 6, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse…

‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
Exclusive: EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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Please.
December 6, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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The Helix Nebula captured by NASA'S Hubble space telescope
December 1, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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That's because middle class women of a certain age are really not here for your predatory, creepy shit, Gregg, and are speaking up because younger women in precarious short-term employment on TV shows are much less likely to do so. God, what a vile creep this man is.
“…the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age”

We’re probably three weeks from Gregg Wallace either getting a column in The Sun or running in a by-election as a Reform candidate. Or both.
Gregg Wallace says accusations against him come from 'middle-class women of a certain age'
Gregg Wallace has responded to the mounting allegations against him in a defiant video posted online, saying the accusations come from "middle-class women of a certain age".
news.sky.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:55 AM