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@pithhelmet

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23,248subscribers

-37 since we began measuring on 5 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001371163584
TypeChannel
Username@pithhelmet
DescriptionЮжная Азия, колониальная и современная. Для связи - @spektorilya93 № 5243545260
Created25 June 2018 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live20 October 2026
Measurements held43
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 20 October 2026
On Telegramt.me/pithhelmet

Topic

National news — 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 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 75% 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.

Growth

23,17923,28723,2335 August 2026 — 23,285 subscribers6 August 2026 — 23,285 subscribers6 August 2026 — 23,287 subscribers8 August 2026 — 23,279 subscribers9 August 2026 — 23,272 subscribers10 August 2026 — 23,267 subscribers11 August 2026 — 23,271 subscribers12 August 2026 — 23,275 subscribers13 August 2026 — 23,268 subscribers14 August 2026 — 23,262 subscribers16 August 2026 — 23,253 subscribers17 August 2026 — 23,245 subscribers18 August 2026 — 23,237 subscribers19 August 2026 — 23,236 subscribers20 August 2026 — 23,233 subscribers21 August 2026 — 23,222 subscribers23 August 2026 — 23,234 subscribers24 August 2026 — 23,235 subscribers25 August 2026 — 23,231 subscribers26 August 2026 — 23,232 subscribers27 August 2026 — 23,235 subscribers28 August 2026 — 23,238 subscribers29 August 2026 — 23,236 subscribers30 August 2026 — 23,234 subscribers31 August 2026 — 23,230 subscribers3 September 2026 — 23,227 subscribers5 September 2026 — 23,232 subscribers8 September 2026 — 23,233 subscribers11 September 2026 — 23,224 subscribers13 September 2026 — 23,216 subscribers14 September 2026 — 23,209 subscribers16 September 2026 — 23,206 subscribers18 September 2026 — 23,207 subscribers25 September 2026 — 23,201 subscribers4 October 2026 — 23,179 subscribers8 October 2026 — 23,238 subscribers13 October 2026 — 23,262 subscribers14 October 2026 — 23,255 subscribers15 October 2026 — 23,252 subscribers17 October 2026 — 23,251 subscribers18 October 2026 — 23,253 subscribers19 October 2026 — 23,250 subscribers20 October 2026 — 23,248 subscribers23,2485 August 202620 October 2026
43 measurements spanning 76 days, net -37. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 23,163–23,303 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 43
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
20 Oct 2026, 23:3623,248-2
19 Oct 2026, 21:0423,250-3
18 Oct 2026, 20:3023,253+2
17 Oct 2026, 18:0123,251-1
15 Oct 2026, 15:4623,252-3
14 Oct 2026, 14:3723,255-7
13 Oct 2026, 01:0023,262+24
8 Oct 2026, 16:3823,238+59
4 Oct 2026, 04:2123,179-22
25 Sept 2026, 08:4023,201-6
18 Sept 2026, 20:1623,207+1
16 Sept 2026, 13:1523,206-3
14 Sept 2026, 15:5623,209-7
13 Sept 2026, 03:1723,216-8
11 Sept 2026, 06:1723,224-9
8 Sept 2026, 06:5723,233+1
5 Sept 2026, 05:1923,232+5
3 Sept 2026, 09:2823,227-3
31 Aug 2026, 23:5723,230-4
30 Aug 2026, 22:3523,234first reading

Engagement

49 posts held, back to 20 July 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 93 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
29.3%
avg views ÷ 23,248 subscribers
Avg views / post
6,810
13 posts measured
Reaction rate
2.63%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
13
of 49 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 19 October 2026
Posts held49 (20 July 2026 – 19 October 2026)
Views total88,470
Reactions total2,327
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken21 Oct 2026, 07:49 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

What this channel posts

Photos
782
Videos
6
Links
202

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 21 October 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.

Reaction mix

7,231 reactions across 45 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 47.7% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
🔥3,45247.7%
👍2,86339.6%
🙏75310.4%
👎1632.25%

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 48 of the 49 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 7,641 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 49 most recent posts we hold, published 20 July 2026 to 19 October 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.

Recent posts

19 Oct 2026, 17:29 UTC≈2,600 views84 reactionsread 21 October 2026

Продолжение моего летнего похода в Мослекторий — во второй части вещаю про Бангладеш https://t.me/moslectory/4720

👍46🔥32👎3🙏3

13 Oct 2026, 12:01 UTC≈7,630 views172 reactionsread 21 October 2026
Photo

Смотря на очередной раунд индийских протестов размышляю о том, что феномен Рахула Ганди конечно уникален. Десять с лишним лет оппозицию в крупнейшей парламентской системе мира фактически возглавляет человек, который…нет, мне он даже симпатичен, похож на либерального барина-англомана конца позапрошлого века, Стива Облонский или кто-то вроде. Явно очень жизнелюбив, добр и снисходителен к простолюдинам, да и сам по себе…

👍114🔥52🙏4👎2

9 Oct 2026, 17:24 UTC≈6,260 views89 reactionsread 21 October 2026

Посреди августовской суеты ходил на канал Москва 24 поговорить про те страны Южной Азии, которые не являются Индией. По результатам тогдашней беседы в «Мослектории» вышел мой краткий ликбез про Пакистан — https://lectory.m24.ru/lecture/index/1621

🔥46👍39👎3🙏1

9 Oct 2026, 09:12 UTC≈6,480 views138 reactionsread 21 October 2026
Photo

Не до конца понимаю смысла существования Нобелевской премии мира, но в этот раз она досталась Наванитхам Пиллэй — судье из Южной Африки, чьи предки переселились в Дурбан из Индии практически одновременно с Ганди.

🔥91🙏24👍14👎9

8 Oct 2026, 11:35 UTC≈5,710 views77 reactionsread 21 October 2026
Forwarded from @tamiltranslationsPhoto

Друзья, я снова набираю группы для начинающих. На этот раз их будет две. Одна - по изучению тамильского языка (два раза в неделю по 90 минут). Вторая - малаялам (раз в неделю по 90 минут). В занятиях будут участвовать мои коллеги по Университету Гамбурга - филологи, носители соответствующих языков (тамильский - Нила Бхаскар, малаялам - Абхирами Пракасан). О себе: я филолог-тамилист, дравидолог, переводчик с тамильск…

🔥50👍24👎3

7 Oct 2026, 10:32 UTC≈6,870 views90 reactionsread 21 October 2026

Как-то я писал, что у моей жены вышла книга про фанфикшн, а сейчас сообщаю, что 10 октября в Москве в магазине «Пиотровский» по этому поводу будет авторская лекция «История литературы — история её читателей: от книжного клуба до фанфика» — про выдуманные вселенные, кроссоверы и фанатские сообщества. Зову всех интересующихся заходить (и буду благодарен за репосты)

🔥64👍21👎3🙏2

6 Oct 2026, 14:56 UTC≈4,870 views182 reactionsread 21 October 2026
Photo

Рамануджан сурово смотрит на гуманитариев

🔥140👍30🙏10👎2

6 Oct 2026, 14:55 UTC≈5,040 views293 reactionsread 21 October 2026

Но он этого не сделал, а стал Рамануджана тянуть. Нашёл ему работу (а ресурс любого чиновника по «протекциям» ограничен, все это понимают), познакомил с Рамачандрой Рао — ещё одним налоговым чиновником и математиком-любителем. И почти три года Айер, Рао и ещё несколько человек пытались заинтересовать Рамануджаном знакомых математиков в метрополии — пока наконец не нашли в Кембридже человека, который смог понять, чем…

🔥196👍70🙏25👎2

6 Oct 2026, 14:54 UTC≈5,070 views141 reactionsread 21 October 2026

История Вивекананды навела меня на размышления о ещё одном индийце, который стал знаменитым в начале XX века — математике Сринивасе Рамануджане. И эта история о том, как несправедлив бывает миф о гении. Итак, что нам сообщает каноническая легенда? Рамануджан, младший клерк в мадрасском порту, в 1913 году написал письмо Годфри Харди, кембриджскому профессору. Дескать, он тут в редкие часы досуга занимается математико…

🔥102👍35👎4

1 Oct 2026, 11:57 UTC≈9,640 views305 reactionsread 21 October 2026

Все обсуждают вчерашний рейс Дубай—Тель-Авив, а в Индии обсуждают касту капитана Смита Маччхара — того самого пилота, который истекая кровью всё-таки успел разблокировать дверь. Учитывая численность выходцев из Южной Азии в ОАЭ, было логично предположить, что эмиратский пилот индиец, но во вчерашней суматохе об этом мало кто написал. В индийской сети моментально появилась теория, разнёсшаяся по правым пабликам: Мачч…

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29 Sept 2026, 17:19 UTC≈7,000 views172 reactionsread 21 October 2026

По пути из Японии в США Вивекананда кстати тоже времени не терял — воспользовался тем, что на одном с ним пароходе ехал Джастеджи Тата и решил агитировать титана индийской промышленности насчёт развития образования на родине. Тата слушал, в любом случае, деваться с океанского парохода ему было некуда. Деньгами в тот раз промышленник собеседника не ссудил, хотя Вивекананда может быть и не просил. Но зарубку в памяти …

🔥119👍49🙏3👎1

27 Sept 2026, 18:58 UTC≈9,900 views274 reactionsread 21 October 2026

А ещё история Вивекананды заставляет задуматься о феномене экспертности. Современный мир: о нет, X говорит от лица сообщества Y, но разве мы опросили всех принадлежащих к Y, вот целых десять человек говорит, что X их не представляет, явная апроприация права голоса, ничего о нас без нас. А ещё X говорит о теме Q, но разве ж он имеет право об этом говорить, вот список людей, которые лучше разбираются в средневековой м…

🔥189👍79👎3🙏3

Showing the 12 most recent of 49 posts we hold for @pithhelmet. 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.

Posts edited after publishing

@pithhelmet edited 1 post after it first published — the same permalink now carries different wording than the one this register originally read, caught because our own crawl held a copy of the earlier text.

An edit is not deception. Typo fixes, price updates and corrections look exactly like this too — this register can tell you the wording changed and when, not why. How this is measured.

First edit seen
23 August 2026
Most recent edit
23 August 2026

Forward network

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Mentions

Named by 14 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one

Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.

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Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 19 September 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

Центральное Болото
@iraq_rusproj · 23,670
Telegram ranks this channel #17 of 93 here — alongside 92 others — read 17 September 2026
Стальной шлем
@stahlhelm · 20,435
Telegram ranks this channel #18 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 28 September 2026
История и истории
@historygothy · 20,790
Telegram ranks this channel #31 of 94 here — alongside 93 others — read 25 September 2026
Redroom Text
@redroomtext · 75,973
Telegram ranks this channel #56 of 92 here — alongside 91 others — read 19 August 2026
Латынь по-пацански
@latinpopacanski · 23,728
Telegram ranks this channel #58 of 92 here — alongside 91 others — read 18 September 2026
One Big Union
@one_big_union · 19,826
Telegram ranks this channel #60 of 94 here — alongside 93 others — read 30 September 2026
Китай. 80-е и не только
@china80s · 19,710
Telegram ranks this channel #66 of 99 here — alongside 98 others — read 30 September 2026
Первый ближневосточный | Иран 🇮🇷 | Ливан 🇱🇧 | Йемен 🇾🇪
@kief_point · 53,172
Telegram ranks this channel #73 of 91 here — alongside 90 others — read 25 August 2026
Data distributor
@sterngang · 20,917
Telegram ranks this channel #77 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 2 October 2026
Записки о Средневековье / Notatki o Średniowieczu / Medieval Notes
@medievalnotes · 20,164
Telegram ranks this channel #77 of 91 here — alongside 90 others — read 28 September 2026
Загадки истории с Лысым Камрадом
@popscienceru · 24,885
Telegram ranks this channel #88 of 91 here — alongside 90 others — read 16 September 2026

This channel appears in 11 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

Cite this entry

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 20 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Пробковый шлем” (@pithhelmet), 23,248 subscribers as measured 20 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/pithhelmet.

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.