#Black Lung

[jenarosscity]

Yeah Sadie stop being so insensitive

😠

[thedooristhebluecushion]

If you haven’t watched the music video for Tyler Childers’ In Your Love please do. It’s a beautiful snapshot of Appalachian queer love through the heartbreaking lens that is selling your body to the coal mines.

Childers continues to make excellent music while being intentional about what his art says. In this video he is making a statement about the beautiful diversity of every corner of our world, AND about how there are hundreds of industries beyond sex work that we sell our bodies to.

(They also hired Colton Haynes & James Scully to play the couple, which just makes my heart so happy.)

If you can, go download & view & get him to the top of the charts instead of some other tacky ass fake country man child who will remain nameless.

[microwave-core]

Something I love about the Zelda series is how Link and Zelda's relationship can change drastically in between games. Like, in Twilight Princess, the two don't really interact much outside of their first meeting. They have a mutual friend in Midna and that's it. There's not much there platonically, much less romantically. At most it's a "this is my girlfriend Midna and this is Midna's girlfriend Zelda" type of situation.

Then you have the next major release, Skyward Sword, where the two are most definitely in love with each other. They're so super into each other and almost everyone knows that. Unless I'm forgetting an entry, it's the closest zelink has come to being canon without them explicitly stating it's canon. And this dynamic comes after the game where they barely know each other. Love that for them.

[0cto-4v3ry]

I Ł0ve m¥ c4t <3

[uboat53]

How anti-worker are Congressional Republicans? Well, they're trying to repeal a policy that would protect mine workers even when the INDUSTRY HAS NOT EVEN ASKED THEM TO DO SO!

[girderednerve]

the mine safety & health administration passed a rule requiring coal operators to put up enough collateral to cover their full black lung benefit obligations in case of bankruptcy, everybody say yaaaaay

[gwydionmisha]

Regulations are written in blood.

[davekatzdefensesquad]

- gay couple ✅

- history ✅

- sadness ✅

- country song that doesn’t degrade anyone ✅

[ehssafetynewsamerica-blog]

Labor Department Acts to Protect Miners’ Black Lung Compensation

The excellent Confined Space 2024 year-end summary missed one important accomplishment of the Biden administration: In December 2024, the DOL’s …Labor Department Acts to Protect Miners’ Black Lung Compensation

[cha-mij]

I've loved reading this fic and listening to the wonderful soundtrack that is scattered in the notes throughout. @princip1914 has done a wonderful job capturing a coal mining town so I thought I'd add to the soundtrack.

I was raised on these songs that tell of the strife so many toiled under (and still do). My maternal great grandfather was a collier and my paternal grandparents came to England for a better life, but worked in the cotton mills. Both my great grandfather and my grandmother died young (black lung and cancer respectively)

Max Boyce is normally a comedic folk musician but he grew up in the Welsh valleys and started off in the mines. He worked in a valley close to Aberfan and tried to reach it after the disaster to join in the rescue effort, but the roads were blocked by other miners all trying the same thing.

Rhondda Grey is about the colour of the skin minors and ex minors had when their lungs started to give out.

Duw it's Hard is about the closing of the mines.

Kate Rusby is a wonderful English folk singer and this one by her is of a woman lamenting her husband having Black Lung.

"The Welsh song “Myfanwy” (written by Joseph Parry from nearby Merthyr Tydfil) was sung by the soldiers who dug for victims. “Myfanwy” was also the first piece performed by the local Ynysowen Male Choir, formed after the tragedy, and from which the community sought to find some solace."

Like Max Boyce, Mike Harding is usually a comedic folk musician but has written some very hard hitting serious songs. Unlike Boyce he grew up in Lancashire where cotton mills dominated. Just like the mines they were incredibly dangerous, low paying, and ruined your lungs.

Finally, Belfast Mill by the Fureys tells of a town where most of the men worked at the local mill. When the mill shut down they had nowhere to go. Finbar Furey is one of Ireland's leading folk musicians. He learned banjo in the Appalachian style.

"I'm too old to work and I'm too young to die. Tell me where will I go now, my family and I?"

Growing up in the shadow of West Virginia’s Eden Mountain, Aziraphale Wright always expected to work for the family coal mining company. Anthony Crowley, the son of a down-and-out miner, was going to become a pilot and leave town forever. Now, thirty years later, neither of their lives have gone as planned, and an unexpected inheritance brings them back into one another’s orbit. Aziraphale hopes that they can move beyond their shared past, and a high school arrangement that ended in disaster, but he has secrets of his own that threaten their fragile reconnection…


Read it here on AO3! 


Complete as of July 2021!

[archaalen]

US miners' union head calls House Republican effort to block silica dust rule an 'attack' on workers | AP News

[radiophd]

black lung -- the disinformation plague

[salvalaa]

i made you a playlist <3

[dangerdust2]

Particle size is key factor in coal mining-related respiratory disease

We found that nanoparticles have the same toxicity as silica," Liu said. “Many think progressive fibrosis is from silica, but really the coal nanoparticles may also contribute to the toxicity. This is the first study of its kind to understand nano-particulate toxicity”

 

[chicagobeerpass]

Chicago Beer Pass: Italian Ice Season

Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago.

On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White have themselves a really fun beer from Hopewell Brewing. This citrus lager was brewer to resemble a Lemon Italian Ice, a lightly tart Lager fruited with Meyer lemon... such a fun drink!

Now with Illinois Craft Beer Week behind us, the guys recap a couple events that took place last week including Beer Under Glass and Mayfestiversary. The guys have a handful of news they heard from Beer Under Glass as well as some stand out beers that might be worth looking for if you're on a hunt this Sumer for something new. Nik also shares a bit about his adventure to Miskatonic Brewing Company. Finally, the guys wrap things up with a bit of news including a couple new breweries opening in Chicago.

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