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.

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[–] Babs@hexbear.net 3 points 19 hours ago

Mostly normal stuff (phone, wallet, keys, water bottle) but also pepper spray and narcan. My work is pretty cool about giving me free narcan in case we come across someone ODing, and I have ended up using it a few times. I also got this neat little flashlight with a really wide LED that a robot supply store sent me as a bonus thingy.