#omelas
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #omelas from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #omelas
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-14 15:14 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-14 15:14 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-14 15:14 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~27121 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 07:00
Languages: English (35) · Turkish (2) · Dutch (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.5
Top of the latest posts
so tell your #barman to hold your #lager or better yet #BringHerWith if she’d rather scran your #ramen or your #carbonara get your #passport, your #mask and your #balaclava get all your #mates from your #AlmaMater all the #neighbours from #
The outies are the ones who stayed in Omelas, they and Lumon are the villains. The innies are the better parts of themselves, suppressed. Mark Scout is toxic; wallowing, immature, rageful, and refuses therapy. Helena is cruel and complicit.
If you’ve read #UrsulaKLeGuin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from #Omelas” (and if you haven’t, you should, and can do so here: https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf), I _highly_ recommend reading #IsabelJKim’s “Why Don’t We Just Kill the
What “omelas” means
Wikipedia"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Fiction in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1974.
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#omelas across platforms
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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/omelas