don’t let the book ban people know I found this in a drawer at the library
@corsent see, this is why they're trying to defund libraries.
@corsent imagining a sad nerd in the early 90s wistfully plugging this into his computer and sighing
@corsent Excellent // Loving your work.
@corsent I think this needs to be taken seriously. I got one of these too close to my partner's bath bombs and just look at the result.
@corsent I’m actually old enough to know what that was used for. ☹️
@corsent @Kevin_Bassett likewise, remember we used to call them "gender benders" (I suppose after Boy George, Marilyn etc) back in the day

@grepppo

Get ready to hate him as he threatens your sexuality! 😋

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=EJX1kqrAbTg

Gender Bender vs Destructor Promo

This could be the most one sided fight since 1973 when Ali faced an eighty foot tall mechanical Joe Fraizer. My memory's not what it used to be but I think the entire Earth was destroyed

Chris Thompson | Invidious

@Kevin_Bassett @corsent I am too and I'm not even that old.

O well, age is just a number, right?

😁

@redwireless @corsent Don't forget SCSI, or “scuzzy”. Always fun trying to figure out terminating a SCSI chain of devices.
@Kevin_Bassett @corsent Aye! I don't even remember what I used these for... one even has the ol' 'Lucent' mark I think it was for communication from our laptop to the ECP/5ESS cellular/switch back in the 90's ☎️
@corsent if only it were that easy *wistful sigh*

@coffee4danz @corsent

Yep. My thought on seeing that image was "That's not a photo. That's a Fictionmania writing prompt." 🙃🏳️‍⚧️

@coffee4danz @corsent never did figure out how i needed to plug it in to work. finally gave up and took hrt
@corsent They are gonna be so mad that those library witches are turning their kids DB25.
@corsent we always refered to them as gender benders
@corsent Hmmm, that could really come in handy.

@corsent

If you think about it in terms of the computer / music / media gear world, no ability to change gender in cables and ports would cause a whole hell of a lot of problems.

We can apply this to people, too.

@corsent don’t worry, but if you find another one, watch out. I’m much harsher on serial serial offenders.
@corsent
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The Lord giveth the penis.
The Lord taketh the penis away.
@corsent Taking the sexual metaphor literally, that thing seems like quite the party.
@corsent when you printer sometimes becomes male hehe

@corsent

OMG OMG OMG!!!! There are children watching!!! Won't anybody think of the children!!!

@corsent I think you go to jail in Texas and Florida for carrying around such a device.
@corsent Adopting this as the official maskot for fairslator.com!
@corsent ironically, male-to-male, which isn't really that much of a change, is it.
@corsent @corsent Why does it got tape around it? Is the gender changer broken? 🧐

@corsent

I bought two a few decades ago.
Do you think THEY know???

@corsent

That's not at all what I thought they would look like.

@corsent But did you find the fresh ink pad you were looking for?

@corsent I am suddenly having PTSD flashbacks to weeks of my life spent in a noisy server room trying to trick the Nortel Meridian Option 11C PBX phone system for my company to output call records to a Windows 98 machine running $5000 phone reporting software with not nearly enough documentation to explain what connectors and baud rates were needed.

You better believe that project stayed on my resume for 20 years.

@corsent If only it was that easy!
@corsent it didn't work on my cat

@corsent male-to-male gender change

quite a rarity these days

@corsent
wow that’s so dated, you gotta check out the DB 26 model!
@corsent @bitprophet imagine if it were that easy, how much happier the world would be.
@corsent I’ve got one of those in my “my wife thinks I’ll never need any of these” box!
@corsent to think, as I kid, I could freely purchase such a dangerous device at the mall...
@corsent this looks like it would fit in a Delorean somewhere