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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

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    44•4 days ago

    I am sitting here trying desperately to understand this.

    They got rid of an emoji. Specifically 🥄, which is a default emoji.

    How?

    It’s on every computer and platform. Did they call slack? Tell them to remove the emoji? If they did, how did slack remove a fucking default emoji? Are they blocking the Unicode?

    What the actual fuck.

    • RQGEnglish
      35•4 days ago

      In the article it says it’s removed from the video conference software used internally. The admins apparently can do it there.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•4 days ago

        Ah thanks for the clarification. The slack part bit was at the end. It’s too early in the morning.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•4 days ago

      Because we’re already in the “yeah, that may as well happen, why not“ -stage. Remember how crazy it got in 2020? We’re doing a rerun of all the.