Un-serious gender-neutral group forms of address

Trying to get "foolish mortals" accepted as a good gender-neutral group form of address.
"Hello foolish mortals, thank you for coming to my meeting."

Posted on Mastodon

Lots of people had opinions for alternatives:

Foolish mortals
Dearest citizens
Mortals and Immortals, Animals, Minerals, and Flora, lend me your hearing apparatus
Greetings Fungal Derivatives
Descendants of the primordial ooze
Ostensible humans
Hi diddly-ho coderinos, let's kick this off
My un-indicted co-conspirators
Fellow kids
Hello Possums!
Remain calm, human scum
Fellow earthlings
Butternuts
My broccoli, hello
Cheezits
Squashlings
Friends and Enemies
Potatoes
Greetings, sentient beings
Fellow sinners / Good Morning Sinners
Hello everypony
Ordinary mortals
Hail, fellow humans
Humans of Earth
Ugly bags of mostly water

Additions in July 2025 from this thread
Crew
Folks
People
Peeps
Humans
Y'all / All y'all
Youse / Yinz
You lot
Sib
Coz
Friends and enemies
O noble people
Meatbags
Tout le monde

The best reply is in song: Could you really not just put this in an email

And a couple of good meeting sign-offs:

• Stay fresh, cheese bags
• Stay cool, fruit mats, from https://ohai.social/@alicemcalicepants