@achillghost

Lecturer @ the University of Göttingen | Medievalist - hermeneutics, religion, the supernatural | Multispectral imaging

uni-goettingen.academia.edu/AlexanderZawacki
Joined May 2009
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a qdoba i passed has a sign that says: free queso any day it’s a full moon in 2026. rare, possibly never seen before, crossover of astrology and fast food. very medieval: local eatery giveth free melted cheese on the full moon. genuinely sounds like a restaurant that a witch runs
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Unfortunately this was me when i was trying to mail a horse skull I found across international borders
Ari🦋✨
@Ariszn12Oct 22
Every time you go to the post office the person in front of you has a problem that has never happened before in all of history.
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Dr. Alex Zawacki@achillghost5 Oct 2025
Got a horse skull from here
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Have you ever seen a cemetery with epitaphs like these?
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Theo Nash@theo_nashOct 20
Absolutely incredible new relief at the University of Michigan.
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Dr Francis Young
@DrFrancisYoungOct 20
This case is very similar to one recorded by Joan Forman in 1978, in The Mask of Time:
Danny Robins
@danny_robinsOct 20
Today’s mini #Uncanny case is really strange. Is this some kind of double doppelgänger situation? A time-slip? Or something we can sceptically explain? See you tomorrow for another spoonful of the spooky.  Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube
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🅱️askerville@WB_BaskervilleOct 20
Wow who could have seen this coming. Good thing every school in the country gave kids laptops.
Rob Wile
@rjwileOct 20
This is an incredible project: NBC News asked parents to check their kids' YouTube history during school hours — and the results show kids are spending huge chunks of the day watching videos that have nothing to do with learning nbcnews.com/specials/hooked-…

How YouTube junk is infiltrating classrooms

Schools wanted educational videos. Students got clickbait. A first-of-its-kind analysis reveals how students are drawn into a platform that keeps them scrolling during class.

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It wouldn’t even be hard to build; you just need some capacitors and a lot of copper wire.
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Fr. Andrew Younan@younan3000Oct 17
How your email finds me:
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Lincoln Michel@TheLincolnOct 14
Any take on reading needs to at least pretend to deal with the fact that never before in history have people had this much access to books, in this many formats, and for this cheap. You can read infinite books for free online or through library apps. Used books are everywhere.
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@owenbroadcastOct 14
i've 100% flipped my script on early halloween lawn decor. i realized that it signals to kids: we are open to trick or treating (obvious), but once a whole neighborhood does it, it signals: this is a trick or treating neighborhood. manifesting. i am obtaining a light up ghost.
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You have discovered rubrication from first principles
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Penumbral🌒@PenumbralVTOct 13
Magic systems always use some ancient language like Latin or somethin but I think it'd be hilarious if spells just required like, regular English sentence structure "Get a bit warmer" "exactly 15 ice spikes" "shield that's kinda yellow and see through"
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If I recall correctly, the reason half the characters explode around 2/3rds of the way through The Stand is that King hit a wall at that point in the book for months until he thought “what if half the characters explode”
Skee-Ball Librarian@oodjaOct 13
Tips for dealing with writer's block: 1. Write a sex scene 2. Kill one of your characters 3. Both #1 and #2 * doesn't work as well for academic writing
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Some last pictures from Chartres
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There was an apparent flap of goblin sightings in Kentucky after the 2022 flash floods oxfordamerican.org/magazine/…

Gobsmacked! Supernatural Sightings After a Kentucky Flood

Lora Eli Smith reports on mysterious goblin-like creatures sightings by Eastern Kentucky residents after the devastating 2022 floods.

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@uncledoomerOct 13
it is currently the season in which new england mogs literally every other region in the country
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Medieval Welsh names you should try for your next baby girl: - Elen - Dyddgu - Blodeuwedd - Mederei Badellfawr - Bun
Megan | @megievalist
@megievalistOct 12
Medieval English names you should try for your next baby girl: - Alys - Margery - Maud - Letice - Joyeuse
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Barendina Smedley
@fugitiveinkOct 11
Here's some news. For those who like that sort of thing, in the next few weeks I'll be publishing a new book of short stories, titled "Deep Waters: Ten More Tales from Norfolk and Beyond" — slightly eerie stories, full of a sense of place, and alert to the deep currents of history flowing everywhere around us.
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