Sunday Reading - A story from 2006 leads me to write a 'definition' of 'Politically Correct'. https://go.thisistrue.com/define-pc
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Channel
@thisistrue_newsletter
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cross-platform identity · Cite this entry
107subscribers
-3 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001672386597 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @thisistrue_newsletter |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 9 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 3 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 3 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/thisistrue_newsletter |
Memes & entertainment — 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 26 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 56% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Oct 2026, 09:37 | 107 | -3 |
| 17 Sept 2026, 21:37 | 110 | +2 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 18:16 | 108 | -1 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 00:16 | 109 | -1 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 07:31 | 110 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:53 | 110 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 18 June 2026 — 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 2 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
118 reactions across 20 posts, in 9 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 40.7% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 48 | 40.7% | |
| ❤ | 25 | 21.2% | |
| 👏 | 23 | 19.5% | |
| 🤣 | 8 | 6.78% | |
| 😱 | 5 | 4.24% | |
| 😁 | 3 | 2.54% | |
| 🤬 | 3 | 2.54% | |
| 👎 | 2 | 1.69% | |
| 💯 | 1 | 0.847% |
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 118 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 18 June 2026 to 2 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Sunday Reading - A story from 2006 leads me to write a 'definition' of 'Politically Correct'. https://go.thisistrue.com/define-pc
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This Week’s Honorary Unsubscribe is an interesting one: Gaines was a writer, but despite at least one best-seller, he will be better known for the way he won an argument (and started a new sport in the process). The story in just 3 minutes. https://owowi.com/15c https://owowi.com/15c
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SUCH an awesome ending story from this week’s newsletter. With a (free, at the web site) subscription you’ll be able to see the photo series MUCH larger. Plus, you know, more stories.
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Sunday Reading - People get SO up in arms, literally afraid of '666'. From my blog on 6/6/6. https://go.thisistrue.com/spectre
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Florida Man: stupidity compounded by obliviocy. The judge will give him something to cry about! Basic subscriptions have been free since the start — and the newsletter is in its 33rd year! How can you NOT have a subscription?!
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Sunday Reading - A Los Angeles driver, fed up with a poorly marked freeway sign, fixed it himself. Even Caltrans admitted it was an improvement. https://go.thisistrue.com/freeway
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This Week’s Honorary Unsubscribe: you probably heard about the death of “Johnny Gage”, but you probably don’t know the story of his impact on YOUR life. I was able to thank him in person. The story in 5 minutes. https://owowi.com/s51
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(Grand)Parents: this is what grooming looks like. The teen made her escape, but it often ends tragically. THIS is why I think kids need to read the newsletter, but that starts with YOU reading it. (Most stories are fun, but NOT all are meant to be.) Basic subscriptions are free at the web site.
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Sunday Reading - If you're outraged by this story, good! You were meant to be. https://go.thisistrue.com/ptss
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Oh man: Randy Mantooth, best known as paramedic Johnny Gage on Emergency!, died Thursday at 80. He wasn’t just an actor: he supported real medics for the rest of his life. I was honored to meet and chat with him in 2013. That story: https://go.thisistrue.com/mantooth
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A pretty *interesting* Honorary Unsubscribe this week: Martha Lillard was the last of her kind. Her story in just 3 minutes. https://owowi.com/157
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From the first newsletter of TRUE’s 33rd year! You know, it’s a good thing current world leaders are so BAD at offense during war. Maybe they’ll get the idea it’s a terrible idea. (Don’t have a free subscription? Visit the web site for stories like this every week.)
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @thisistrue_newsletter. 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 Wikidata item names this Telegram handle as belonging to the entity it describes. This is Wikidata’s claim, not a verification made by this register — nobody here confirmed that the account is genuinely operated by the entity named. Wikidata content is CC0; every fact below is dated to when it was read from Wikidata, not to when the association was first made there.
| Label | This is True |
|---|---|
| Official site | http://www.thisistrue.com |
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 3 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“This is True” (@thisistrue_newsletter), 107 subscribers as measured 3 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/thisistrue_newsletter.
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.