https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=M3afnfNQTu0&listen=1

Look how happy the people are!

from the most recent eruption in Iceland

• RÚV – Ragnar Visage

So much of EDC seems to be centered around either surviving alone in the woods for days or alternatively using your tactical pen to stab a terrorist to death and John McClane the building. I'm John Suburban and my EDC includes a gun, a ferrorod and a tacpen with built in seatbelt slicer and window breaker (none of which I ever trained to use, but am assured will use competently after a flip over car crash into a body of water).

Which is a shame, because I think EDC stuff is cool. Little nifty tools! What do the denizens of this here website chapo.chat like for non chud EDC applications?

I'll start off with some favourites,

• a small AA-powered flashlight by EOLite (self-explanatory I think)
• a Gerber Dime (basically one of those small swiss army knives but the pliers are a nice touch for a lot of things, like not touching the garbage juice)
• a keychain presta-to-schrader adapter to reinflate my bicycle tyres at any given gas station, should the need arise

Currently also building a bicycle EDC-Pouch where space isn't limited to pocket size, would love to hear what other people use.

lordy it's stressful. So many cars in the bike lane with zero protection.

https://xcancel.com/NaqiyNY/status/1857562303228448998#m <-good thread with other cities as well

I commute about 16km~ daily on a cheap bike. The components are bad, it sucks going up hills, and even with good cycling infrastructure I don't want to ride across town or carry more than a backpack. Next year the prices on ebikes in the US are going to start going monkey in response to both Biden and Trump's tariffs on China this seems like it's my last cheap chance to minimise my car use. I went with a Lectric Xpress which seemed to be the best urban commuter at a low price. Good enough to last but not nice enough to steal over the bikes next to it.

Remember, we don't need to have semi-trucks everywhere, there are alternatives

The railroad ran from East Boston to Lynn and had a branch to Winthrop Beach. The line ran frequent commuter service until 1940 when it was closed down and partially replaced with the MBTA Blue Line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%2C_Revere_Beach_and_Lynn_Railroad