Channel
@MattiasDesmet
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1,503subscribers
-24 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
| Telegram ID | -1001780729799 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @MattiasDesmet |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 13 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/MattiasDesmet |
Politics & activism — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 17 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 89% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 2026, 11:45 | 1,503 | -3 |
| 5 Oct 2026, 23:18 | 1,506 | -5 |
| 28 Sept 2026, 16:38 | 1,511 | -7 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 19:40 | 1,518 | -1 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 23:00 | 1,519 | -1 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 22:40 | 1,520 | -1 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 11:47 | 1,521 | -1 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 22:33 | 1,522 | -1 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 03:53 | 1,523 | +1 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 20:16 | 1,522 | -2 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 08:43 | 1,524 | -3 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 21:33 | 1,527 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 14:18 | 1,527 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 25 August 2024 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 4 May 2025. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Measured directly from 1 video with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
1,056 reactions across 20 posts, in 32 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 31.9% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 337 | 31.9% | |
| ❤ | 307 | 29.1% | |
| 💯 | 114 | 10.8% | |
| 🔥 | 75 | 7.10% | |
| 🤡 | 61 | 5.78% | |
| 🙏 | 23 | 2.18% | |
| 😁 | 18 | 1.70% | |
| ❤🔥 | 16 | 1.52% | |
| 🕊 | 15 | 1.42% | |
| 😢 | 15 | 1.42% | |
| 👏 | 10 | 0.947% | |
| 😭 | 9 | 0.852% | |
| 🤯 | 9 | 0.852% | |
| 🤬 | 5 | 0.473% | |
| 🍾 | 4 | 0.379% | |
| 💊 | 4 | 0.379% | |
| 💋 | 4 | 0.379% | |
| 🥴 | 4 | 0.379% | |
| 😈 | 3 | 0.284% | |
| 😡 | 3 | 0.284% | |
| 12 further kinds | 20 | 1.89% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 20 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 1,056 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 25 August 2024 to 4 May 2025, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
My latest Subst. article - The Great (Zionist) Conspiracy There are quite a few people who believe that the entire political and geopolitical situation is one big theater, literally, a show that is being directed behind the scenes in detail by a group of rulers, the true rulers. Biden and Trump – they are two hands on the same (hidden) belly. Ultimately, they both execute the program of those who are really pulling …
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Every detail was perfect—the bending of a raised arm, the arching of the neck as a dancer dropped to the floor, the dynamics of the opening and closing circles emerging constantly on the stage, and so forth. After the performance, I asked Emmanuel how long it took him to plan and rehearse every detail so perfectly with the dancers. "It goes very smoothly, I don’t tell my dancers exactly what to do; I just give them t…
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For clarity, I count myself among those ‘ordinary people’. That’s why I try every day to become just a little bit more truly human, a being that only truly becomes itself when it puts its ethical awareness at the forefront of its existence. To the extent that the ordinary person realizes that he is co-guilty, he will also stop being powerless. In principle, we all struggle—with elites or ordinary people—with the same…
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To the media, I would say: you can only kill a man once. If he’s not dead by then, you’ve got a serious problem on your hands. @mattiasdesmet
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https://words.mattiasdesmet.org/p/why-some-are-steering-towards-a-third @mattiasdesmet
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Two relevant articles of mine: https://words.mattiasdesmet.org/p/the-courage-for-truth-in-putins-russia @mattiasdesmet
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We slide back into mass formation. Right now, we are still talking about the mild precursor of it ('massification' in Ellul's terms). But we are not far from a fully developed mass formation in which the belief or non-belief in the war narrative tears apart all social groups – including groups of friends and families – and a radical intolerance emerges towards anyone who refuses to go along with a black-and-white hat…
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'One of these hasty explanations has been the identification of antisemitism with rampant nationalism and its xenophobic outbursts. Unfortunately, the fact is that modern antisemitism grew in proportion as traditional nationalism declined, and reached its climax at the exact moment when the European system of nation-states and its precarious balance of power crashed.' (HA, The origins of totalitarianism) @MattiasDes…
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Dear friends, I have the honor and pleasure of announcing an online event with Dr. Iain McGilchrist (please find link for subscription below). Iain is one of the few psychiatrists who has gained worldwide recognition for a theory that, in many ways, challenges the materialistic view of human beings and consciousness. He is the man who put the difference between the left and right hemispheres of the brain on the map—a…
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In a society where smoking, drinking, kissing, shouting, and laughing are forbidden, the totalitarian citizen finds pleasure in only one thing: strictly ensuring that everyone follows the absurd rules. @MattiasDesmet
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Dear friends, I'm sharing this here because I find it very important that everyone behaves like a model citizen. In Leuven (Belgium), city employees are no longer allowed to criticize policy decisions (see comments). And it is strongly discouraged to give kisses in the workplace for birthdays and other biochemically unnecessary events. Whenever I read something like this, I genuinely wonder for a moment whether it’…
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Dear friends, This morning, I read in Belgian mainstream newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws that Robert Kennedy happily crushed live mice and birds in a blender to feed his falcons. His niece, Caroline Kennedy, supposedly said this in an interview. By coincidence, I just saw the interview in question pass by on X. However, the word 'live' was not mentioned. I therefore propose that HLN rewrite the article under the followi…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @MattiasDesmet. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Mattias Desmet” (@MattiasDesmet), 1,503 subscribers as measured 12 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/MattiasDesmet.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.