7 Aug 2026, 00:08 UTC8 viewsread 7 August 2026
Leprosy cases climb in Florida: Here’s how to reduce your risk https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/6013242-florida-leprosy-armadillos/ https://redd.it/1vhke8v @r_nottheonion
Channel
/r/nottheonion
@r_nottheonion
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
268subscribers
+7 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001409608933 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @r_nottheonion |
| Created | 22 March 2019 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/r_nottheonion |
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 23 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 36% 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
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Sept 2026, 00:58 | 268 | +1 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 13:37 | 267 | +3 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 19:27 | 264 | -1 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 10:14 | 265 | +4 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 01:03 | 261 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 08:56 | 261 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 5 August 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 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
6 Aug 2026, 22:08 UTC17 viewsread 7 August 2026
‘Unlock my f—ing anime’: DPS arrests Houston man after threatening call to governor’s office https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/unblock-my-f-ing-anime-dps-arrests-houston-man-after-threatening-call-to-governor/ https://redd.it/1vhh1rj @r_nottheonion
6 Aug 2026, 21:08 UTC23 viewsread 7 August 2026
"Don't Steal Pokémon and Naruto!": Japan Lodges Official Protest With US https://news.sbs.co.kr/english/article.do?newsId=N1008689569 https://redd.it/1vhgfqi @r_nottheonion
6 Aug 2026, 20:08 UTC26 viewsread 7 August 2026
Bonita Gooch unseats incumbent Ford Carr in Kansas House District 84 Democratic primary https://www.kwch.com/2026/08/05/bonita-gooch-unseats-incumbent-ford-carr-kansas-house-district-84-democratic-primary/ https://redd.it/1vheazh @r_nottheonion
6 Aug 2026, 19:08 UTC29 viewsread 7 August 2026
No joke: Britain might be about to elect ‘novelty’ candidate Count Binface https://thehill.com/opinion/international/6012274-british-parliament-special-election-joke/ https://redd.it/1vhc3bh @r_nottheonion
6 Aug 2026, 18:08 UTC34 viewsread 7 August 2026
Electric fans brought in to dry UP expressway after it sinks weeks after opening https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/electric-fans-brought-in-to-dry-up-expressway-after-it-sinks-weeks-after-opening-2964934-2026-08-06 https://redd.it/1vh581f @r_nottheonion
6 Aug 2026, 14:08 UTC40 viewsread 7 August 2026
Police Arrest Anime Fan For Flooding Shueisha's Store With Orders Worth Billions & Cancelling https://animehunch.com/police-arrest-anime-fan-for-flooding-shueishas-store-with-orders-worth-billions-cancelling/ https://redd.it/1vh43sa @r_nottheonion
6 Aug 2026, 13:08 UTC45 viewsread 7 August 2026
DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out https://www.techspot.com/news/113357-duckduckgo-made-sunglasses-do-absolutely-nothing-they-sold.html https://redd.it/1vh32cz @r_nottheonion
6 Aug 2026, 12:08 UTC57 viewsread 7 August 2026
Minnesota man charged for using homemade spike strip to keep kids off his lawn https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/minnesota-man-charged-for-using-homemade-spike-strip-to-keep-kids-off-his-lawn/89-ef7eb449-dea3-410a-88a9-dc8fd57c5eb0 https://redd.it/1vh0bnd @r_nottheonion
6 Aug 2026, 10:08 UTC43 viewsread 7 August 2026
Manga Publisher Shogakukan Says It Won’t Hire Sex Offenders Or Major Human Rights Violators Going Ahead https://animehunch.com/manga-publisher-shogakukan-says-it-wont-hire-sex-offenders-or-major-human-rights-violators-going-ahead/ https://redd.it/1vgzln0 @r_nottheonion
6 Aug 2026, 09:08 UTC42 viewsread 7 August 2026
Man attempts to drop drugs into Utah State Prison with drone, winds up in prison https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/salt-lake-city/man-attempts-to-drop-drugs-into-utah-state-prison-with-drone-winds-up-in-prison https://redd.it/1vgu0rc @r_nottheonion
6 Aug 2026, 08:08 UTC40 viewsread 7 August 2026
Cape Cod homeowner sues, says bank should not have given him mortgage for $5.5 million mansion at risk of collapse https://www.boston.com/news/the-boston-globe/2026/08/03/cape-cod-homeowner-sues-says-bank-should-not-have-given-him-mortgage-for-5-5-million-mansion-at-risk-of-collapse/ https://redd.it/1vgum4p @r_nottheonion
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @r_nottheonion. 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.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
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 6 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.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
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.
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 12 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“/r/nottheonion” (@r_nottheonion), 268 subscribers as measured 12 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/r_nottheonion.
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.