According to a New York Times report, on Thursday, the U.S. government’s General Services Administration (GSA) removed the spoon emoji as an option that users of its videoconferencing platform can select to express themselves.

The move comes a day after workers embraced the digital cutlery to protest the Trump administration’s “Fork in the Road” resignation offer.

  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    I miss ascii art! Back in IRC days when bandwidth was not great we could have really used the efficiency of emojis. Instead, you got sent a wall of text that looked like something and your entire internet slowed down for a minute.

    • SaintWacko@slrpnk.net
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      11 hours ago

      Unless your IRC window wasn’t wide enough, in which case you got a wall of text that looked like nothing and it still slowed your Internet down!