diff --git a/src/app/components/CallEmbedProvider.tsx b/src/app/components/CallEmbedProvider.tsx
index 0660d27e8..1019be8d5 100644
--- a/src/app/components/CallEmbedProvider.tsx
+++ b/src/app/components/CallEmbedProvider.tsx
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ import { useReducedMotion } from '../hooks/useReducedMotion';
 import { useSetting } from '../state/hooks/settings';
 import { useCallPreferences } from '../state/hooks/callPreferences';
 import { settingsAtom } from '../state/settings';
-import { getStateEvent, getMemberName } from '../utils/room';
+import { getStateEvent, getMemberName, isFromFilteredTimelineSet } from '../utils/room';
 import { isRingableRoom } from '../utils/callRing';
 import { StateEvent } from '../../types/matrix/room';
 import { getPowersLevelFromMatrixEvent } from '../hooks/usePowerLevels';
@@ -494,6 +494,7 @@ function IncomingCallListener({ callEmbed, joined }: IncomingCallListenerProps)
 
   const handleTimelineEvent: EventTimelineSetHandlerMap[RoomEvent.Timeline] = useCallback(
     async (event, room, toStartOfTimeline, removed, data) => {
+      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259]
       // only process rtc notification reference events.
       // we do not want to wait to decrypt all events.
       if (event.getRelation()?.rel_type !== RelationType.Reference) return;
@@ -639,6 +640,7 @@ function IncomingCallListener({ callEmbed, joined }: IncomingCallListenerProps)
       data,
     ) => {
       if (eventRoom?.roomId !== room.roomId || !data.liveEvent) return;
+      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259]
       if (event.getType() === EventType.RTCDecline && event.getSender() === myUserId) {
         const related = event.getRelation()?.event_id;
         if (!related || related === refEventId) dismiss(); // declined elsewhere
diff --git a/src/app/features/room/RoomTimeline.tsx b/src/app/features/room/RoomTimeline.tsx
index fd69479c4..49cd21fc1 100644
--- a/src/app/features/room/RoomTimeline.tsx
+++ b/src/app/features/room/RoomTimeline.tsx
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ import {
   isMembershipChanged,
   reactionOrEditEvent,
   sendRoomEvent,
+  isFromFilteredTimelineSet,
 } from '../../utils/room';
 import { getLastEditDiff } from '../../utils/editDiff';
 import { tick } from '../../utils/haptics';
@@ -410,6 +411,9 @@ const useLiveEventArrive = (room: Room, onArrive: (mEvent: MatrixEvent) => void)
       data,
     ) => {
       if (eventRoom?.roomId !== room.roomId || !data.liveEvent) return;
+      // [Gitea #259] The media gallery / activity log register filtered timeline
+      // sets whose events the room re-emits as live: don't count them twice.
+      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return;
       onArrive(mEvent);
     };
     const handleRedaction: RoomEventHandlerMap[RoomEvent.Redaction] = (mEvent, eventRoom) => {
diff --git a/src/app/features/room/widgets/RoomWidgetView.tsx b/src/app/features/room/widgets/RoomWidgetView.tsx
index 47a16508a..99c460cd8 100644
--- a/src/app/features/room/widgets/RoomWidgetView.tsx
+++ b/src/app/features/room/widgets/RoomWidgetView.tsx
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import { GeneralWidgetDriver } from './GeneralWidgetDriver';
 import { WidgetPermissionRequest, isWidgetUrlSafe } from './widgetUtils';
 import { restrictWidgetMessages } from '../../../plugins/widgetTransport';
 import { WidgetPermissionPrompt } from './WidgetPermissionPrompt';
+import { isFromFilteredTimelineSet } from '../../../utils/room';
 
 type PendingAsk = {
   requests: WidgetPermissionRequest[];
@@ -111,6 +112,7 @@ export function RoomWidgetView({ room, widget }: RoomWidgetViewProps) {
     };
     const onTimeline: RoomEventHandlerMap[RoomEvent.Timeline] = (ev, r, toStart, removed, data) => {
       if (toStart || removed || !data?.liveEvent) return;
+      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259] don't feed widgets each event twice
       if (ev.isBeingDecrypted()) ev.once(MatrixEventEvent.Decrypted, feed);
       else feed(ev);
     };
diff --git a/src/app/pages/client/ClientNonUIFeatures.tsx b/src/app/pages/client/ClientNonUIFeatures.tsx
index 84e3e9f8f..0dfdfc829 100644
--- a/src/app/pages/client/ClientNonUIFeatures.tsx
+++ b/src/app/pages/client/ClientNonUIFeatures.tsx
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ import {
   getNotificationType,
   getUnreadInfo,
   isNotificationEvent,
+  isFromFilteredTimelineSet,
 } from '../../utils/room';
 import { NotificationType } from '../../../types/matrix/room';
 import { mxcUrlToHttp } from '../../utils/matrix';
@@ -679,6 +680,7 @@ function MessageNotifications() {
       data,
     ) => {
       if (mx.getSyncState() !== 'SYNCING') return;
+      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259] no duplicate notifications
       if (document.hasFocus() && (selectedRoomId === room?.roomId || notificationSelected)) return;
       if (
         !room ||
@@ -1118,6 +1120,7 @@ function ClockSkewFeature() {
       data,
     ) => {
       if (!data.liveEvent) return;
+      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259]
       // Only events our homeserver stamped: a federated event's
       // origin_server_ts is the other server's clock.
       const senderServer = mEvent.getSender()?.split(':').slice(1).join(':');
diff --git a/src/app/state/room/roomToUnread.ts b/src/app/state/room/roomToUnread.ts
index 535574af8..c3b31c5d9 100644
--- a/src/app/state/room/roomToUnread.ts
+++ b/src/app/state/room/roomToUnread.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {
   getUnreadInfo,
   getUnreadInfos,
   isNotificationEvent,
+  isFromFilteredTimelineSet,
 } from '../../utils/room';
 import { roomToParentsAtom } from './roomToParents';
 import { useStateEventCallback } from '../../hooks/useStateEventCallback';
@@ -236,6 +237,7 @@ export const useBindRoomToUnreadAtom = (mx: MatrixClient, unreadAtom: typeof roo
       data: IRoomTimelineData,
     ) => {
       if (!room || !data.liveEvent || room.isSpaceRoom() || !isNotificationEvent(mEvent)) return;
+      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259]
       // Single-owner rule: thread replies drive the room badge via
       // RoomEvent.UnreadNotifications below — ignore them here so the count is
       // never double-driven / mis-attributed to the main timeline.
diff --git a/src/app/utils/filteredTimeline.test.ts b/src/app/utils/filteredTimeline.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..12405c508
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/utils/filteredTimeline.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import { test } from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import type { IRoomTimelineData } from 'matrix-js-sdk';
+import { isFromFilteredTimelineSet } from './room';
+
+const data = (filter: unknown): IRoomTimelineData =>
+  ({
+    liveEvent: true,
+    timeline: { getTimelineSet: () => ({ getFilter: () => filter }) },
+  }) as unknown as IRoomTimelineData;
+
+test('isFromFilteredTimelineSet: gallery/activity-log sets are filtered, the main set is not (#259)', () => {
+  assert.equal(isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data({ filterId: 'media' })), true);
+  assert.equal(isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data(undefined)), false);
+  assert.equal(isFromFilteredTimelineSet(undefined), false);
+  assert.equal(
+    isFromFilteredTimelineSet({ liveEvent: true } as unknown as IRoomTimelineData),
+    false,
+  );
+});
diff --git a/src/app/utils/room.ts b/src/app/utils/room.ts
index a86a2bf10..41071fe52 100644
--- a/src/app/utils/room.ts
+++ b/src/app/utils/room.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import {
   Room,
   RoomMember,
   TimelineEvents,
+  IRoomTimelineData,
 } from 'matrix-js-sdk';
 import { CryptoBackend } from 'matrix-js-sdk/lib/common-crypto/CryptoBackend';
 import type { RoomMessageEventContent } from 'matrix-js-sdk/lib/@types/events';
@@ -847,3 +848,14 @@ export const guessPerfectParent = (
 
   return perfectParent;
 };
+
+/**
+ * [Gitea #259] Whether a RoomEvent.Timeline emit came from a FILTERED timeline
+ * set. The media gallery and activity log register filtered sets on the room
+ * (getOrCreateFilteredTimelineSet), and the room re-emits their events with
+ * liveEvent: true, so listeners that mean "a new event in the room" saw each
+ * matching event twice (the timeline window drifted, notifications doubled).
+ * The room's main and thread sets have no filter.
+ */
+export const isFromFilteredTimelineSet = (data?: IRoomTimelineData): boolean =>
+  !!data?.timeline?.getTimelineSet()?.getFilter();