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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Binding your chest with tape is an established thing that can be safe. Safer than a wearable binder even, since it doesn’t compress your entire rib cage. It can also be left on for a few days at a time. But duct tape is just about the least skin safe tape you could use for that.

    If this is of interest to anyone, there’s purpose made binding tape. If you find that too expensive, get some of that breathable fabric medical tape from the pharmacy/drugstore.


  • I don’t even have a large chest and even medial tape is suuuuuper uncomfortable to me. Couldn’t imagine the sensory horror of duct tape. But for those who don’t have this sensory issue, this fabricy medical tape stuff from the pharmacy/drugstore costs about the same as duct tape, which is much less than actual binding or breast tape*, and it’s skin safe.

    *I’m assuming binding tape and breast tape are more or less the same, except the former is advertised to AFAB trans people and the latter to cis women. Both are pretty expensive.





  • Even in the first one, ‘boys will be boys’ is often used to explain why you react differently to the same scenario depending on whether it’s a boy or girl. I remember being scolded for this stuff as an AFAB, while boys got away with it. Same story with getting into little physical fights, being rowdy, aggressive, destroying stuff. I guess that can be a slippery slope into the latter one, if you keep it up long enough. Just my attempt at an explanation.






  • As a matter of experience, cyclists will use the sidewalk right next to the cycle path if it means they can skip a red light or makes their path 10m shorter. Or even just because. Or to pass a stopped tram, people getting off it be damned. These are all things that happen daily in my city, the very last one has caused the collision that left me with chronic pain.

    Endangering others for your convenience is nobody’s right.




  • Disagree with the first bit. They have a chance to make a little bit of positive change, and they do. Good on them.

    Super feel you on the last bit though. Happens at least once a day to me. I even have some low level chronic pain from a cyclist hitting me a few years back. I really wish the anti car community was ready to address this problem.

    Conclusion: like, both are bad. Just because the latter is bad and there’s many apologists for the latter doesn’t mean it’s not right to call out car drivers for this egoistical behavior. Even those who don’t realise that both are bad (there’s many of them, I know) are your allies in this. How’d you feel if a pedestrian managed to get a cyclist prosecuted for this behavior? Would you see them as a predator?






  • If there’s one thing that unites all European cultures it’s poking fun at one another within a country for local language variations.

    That said, chocolatine sounds like a biscuit. But then pain au chocolat is also what they’re called outside France.