#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

[say-hwaet]

I gave you all I had. I did.

Totally feel like this snowman as I’ve come down with sickness and can’t sleep. I had to take away Arthur Snowman’s hat and bandana to keep them from getting ruined.

Shortly after taking the first pic, my dog tried to make off with his left arm again. After returning his arm, I debated on whether or not to try to restore him, but it was futile.

I guess my humor is a little dark, but I do get cynical when under the weather.

You’re a good [snow]man, Arthur.

Featuring the hat I made. I tried to get my dog to sit by him to pose as Copper, but she kept trying to chew his left arm (she’s a stick thief). At least it wasn’t his shooting arm. lol

[archaalen]

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

[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!

[radiophd]

black lung -- the disinformation plague

[salvalaa]

i made you a playlist <3

[rithion]

nothing but a simple waltz