#busywork
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #busywork from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #busywork
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 06:02 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-27 06:02 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 06:02 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 10 public posts (spanning ~19301 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (10)
Avg boosts / post: 0.3
Top of the latest posts
#PetPeeve I’m required to "sign" a form in Microsoft Word format, sent by email. It says “typed signatures not accepted”. So presumably they want a picture of my (fake) signature pasting in? And that is somehow better than me typing my init
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116487982770607925 The thing about AI for code generation is that I don't think it is universally bad. But this thread describes a deep pathology that *is* very bad. Companies are paying fewer people to be bus
🥴 Soooo apparently, if you find yourself drowning in a sea of emails and endless meetings, you're officially a certified #dingbat. 📧📅 The geniuses behind this "tactical framework" suggest that being busy is a covert operation to annihila
What “busywork” means
WikipediaBusy work is an activity that is undertaken to pass time and stay busy but has little or no actual value. Busy work occurs in business, military, and other settings in situations where people may be required to be present but may lack the opportunities, skills, or need to do something more productive. People may engage in busy work to maintain an appearance of activity to avoid criticism of being inactive or idle.
“Busy work” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#busywork across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #busywork straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/busywork