💬 "It's been a very embarrassing day for putin" - Luke Harding, the Guardian's senior international correspondent.
Ukrainian drones hit energy and military sites in the city of st petersburg early on Wednesday, hours before international guests gathered for an economic forum described as russia's answer to Davos and where putin is due to speak on Friday.
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"We are experiencing a shift whose magnitude we have not yet fully grasped... Iran finds itself in a position of strength... Donald Trump is actively destroying all the alliances built after the war... The whole world must understand that the United States is already, to a large extent, a dictatorship...
"Europe must support democracy in the United States, and that requires abandoning any strategy aimed at appeasing Trump. It does not work."
In which Russia tries to blackmail Ireland into keeping Alumina supplies flowing into their weapons industry.
Headline reads "[Russian owned] Aughinish Alumina warns sanctions would impact power grid"
They warn of pulling energy supply equivalent to 200,000 Irish homes and stopping annual energy payment of €25 million.
#Putin #Ukraine #Weapons #Alumina #Russia #War #Energy
#MastoDaoine
https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2026/0529/1575833-aughinish-alumina-sanctions/
'Segundo José Pedro Machado (Dicionário Onomástico Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa), o nome latino Ebora deve ter origem céltica, pois relaciona-se com a palavra irlandesa "ibhar" e a gaulesa "eburos", que significam «teixo», «[...]árvore totémica que servia para envenenar setas».
Assim, Ebora pode estar ligada a outras cidades europeias que remontam ao nome dessa árvore em céltico: Iorque (Eburacum), em Inglaterra, e Évreux (Ebroicorum ciuitas).'
in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa, https://ciberduvidas.iscte-iul.pt/consultorio/perguntas/a-origem-do-topoonimo-evora-portugal/16484 [consultado em 30-05-2026]
Radulfr.net - York
http://radulfr.net/textus/york_e.php
Interesting to see Jórvík "boar-town" is derived from Anglo-Saxon folk etymology: «In the Celtic languages the name Eborākon developed on its own, and produced the Welsh Efrog or Caer Efrog (caer = 'fortified city'), Irish Eabhrac, and Gaelic Eabhraig».
Brings this map to mind from a few years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/h9jlbs/american_place_names_in_irish/
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