Erik Gregersen

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby kitten appearing to burst through a sheet of white paper in a dark frame. Text at the bottom reads “sauve qui peut”.

“Sauve qui peut”. This is a French phrase that translates literally to something like "save yourself who's able/can" and roughly equates to “run for your life!” or “every man for himself!”, indicating a chaotic or dangerous situation/stampede. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

Color photo of the intricate geometrical and floral motif of the highly ornate portico ceiling.

Color detail of a section of wall. At top are highly detailed golden tan tiles embossed with a geometric and floral design. A matching molding separates this from the bottom tiles, which are a gorgeous green and outlined in raised, Gothic tracery.

Color detail of flooring inside the chapel. Set into an off-white mosaic floor is a striking pattern of dark teal flowers with burgundy leaves outlined in white and outlined again in a darker gold, giving it a vaguely quatrefoil-ish shape.

Color close-up of incredibly detailed angels and Gothic tracery carved into enormous wooden corbels.

2/2 More May Chapel details

Color photo of the interior of a Gothic chapel, taken from the entrance and facing the front. Dark wooden pews line either side of an aisle covered in a runner with red as the dominant color. Light shines in through stained glass windows, illuminating a partially visible wooden vaulted ceiling.

Color photo looking straight up at a wooden vaulted ceiling. A light fixture hangs from the junction of four sections. On either side of two of these sections can be glimpsed the pointed arches of stained glass windows.

Color photo of a portion of a wall in the chapel. Dark wooden pews stretch to the walls, which are covered in green and tan tile, with a green and tan frieze of Gothic tracery ornamenting the top. Two sets of stained glass windows in yellow, white and red sit on either side of a dark wooden truss; the transom of the window to the far right is open.

Color photo taken from inside the chapel, facing the doors leading outside. Bright sunlight out side obscures some details, but the glorious stained glass transoms above the doors are visible, as is a glimpse of the ornate mosaic ceiling just inside.

1/2 I have never once been to Rosehill Cemetery & found the May Chapel open & empty. Until yesterday.

Short thread with some interior details in the light of day.

Horatio N May Memorial Chapel
Architect: Joseph Lyman Silsbee, 1899

Breaking News: RIFs in reverse. Some CDC workers have been brought back, in latest whiplash. This is breaking news.

Some GOOD NEWS we are breaking on Inside Medicine on a Saturday night.

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report The MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for ,,,

This may be the last time you ever see a current issue of the CDC's weekly MMWR: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...

I still don’t get how the major reporting doesn’t frame this as obvious. It’s as if the administration just randomly shut off all traffic lights, in the absence of a plausible reason I think we could assume the goal is pain and chaos.

Me: Listen I'm fine with you killing me but can we just talk about movies for a little longer first

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

industry and supply chains take years to set up but Washington has, in fact, had years to work on this problem!

... the need to rebuild a US chain. And the net result of all of this was a single processing facility reopening in the United States, which is still not yet, I believe, fully operational.

rare earths are an exercise in American inability to govern. the problem of Chinese dominance in the sector has been known for over a decade. there was a broad bipartisan consensus that it was a problem in DC, at least among anyone who knew even a little about it, and constant discussion of ...

Our umbrella movement is *checks notes* inflatable costumes. I take comfort in that.

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

Chuffed for László Krasznahorkai winning the Nobel. Might mark it by re-reading one of his sentences over the weekend.

Krasznahorkai is the most “no, but I saw the movie” Nobel lit winner since Pearl S. Buck

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Observation of Uranus by the JWST. The planet itself appears mostly blue, but the pole, a big patch, is white. Some storms can also be spotted near the pole. The rings of the planet can be spotted in infrared light, so they appear in that image (in orange color).

Last night, the JWST observed Uranus for calibration. Even like that the result is awesome, so here you go with my processed image of that observation! 🔭

HD: flic.kr/p/2ry78y3

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

Attention university presidents and boards of trustees:

"Those who oppose authoritarianism have to play a different game, creating solidarity among an unwieldy coalition, which knows that if everyone holds together, they will surely succeed."

It hit me a while ago that I will have personally met people who live at least part of their lives in both the 19th and 22nd centuries

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago