he's just a little guy!

I love this. Its peak sibling energy

"Turning the population pyramid upside down basically upsets the business model, the background music, that we've had in modern life for as long as we can remember," he [Nicholas Eberstadt, economist at the American Enterprise Institute] said.

www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

bet?

2.1 children is how many children women need to have to not fuck the economy up but many are only having 1.4 children 🤨

writing from a country in the midst of a government shutdown that is also sliding into facism: omg ppl continue to have fewer children than previous generations how come???

NPR is up at bat and they've got all the hits:

warn of growing demographic shift ✅️

language that inadvertently or deliberately suggests women alone are behind this ✅️

deaths outpace births in china, Italy and Japan ✅️

too few young consumers, too many old ppl = potential disaster for the economy ✅️

yeah my car is a pussy magnet (negatively polarized)

I would rather listen to a toilet try and fail to flush too much shit down the drain tbh

is there anyone out there who would hear this stuff and think, yeah, I'll pay real money for these songs because I wouldn't want to spend the bandwidth to pirate them even

all attempting soul music, which is kind of ironic because AI "art" has the least amount of soul out there. I've used forks that have more soul than this shit

It was immediately obvious that these were AI things based on a combination of the band name, cover art and sound btw.

enlly blue
the soulful gentlemen
soul'd out (not the hip-hop trio from Japan)

every picture of tilly in the news this week is tilly in tears or tilly with a toothy smile. the little QA checklist for it is just the two drama masks Comedy and Tragedy in a bullet list

he was on the front page of tiger beat