Saturday February 28th, 2026
This heat and serve Veg Kolhapuri has witty comebacks for all occasions.
The writers of 2026 are having to go to particularly ridiculous lengths to get headlines. Lockout Supplements Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Boner Bears Chocolate Syrup Due to Undeclared Sildenafil
Via.
We need a better phrase than "AI psychosis" or "AI addiction" for what this is.
What we're seeing with people becoming emptionally and intellectually dependent on computer processes, as a direct consequence of the way both mass and social media have for generations been designed to exploit parasocial fascinations and protaganism.
The entire Internet of social interaction, fandom, and fantasy, was slurped up in service of training these language models in how to act human. With that kind of pedigree, you know damn well how competent they will be at that, in a variety of fairytale ways. The ultimate "Choose Your Own Adventure" storyline.
This is a problem well beyond ethical concerns like intellectual property rights. What's been documented so far, is the December of a global mental health pandemic that may well make the Covid isolation blues seem mild. But for me, the descriptors of "psychosis" and "addiction" don't really cut it.
Being Left Behind Enjoyer @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
Just thought about something that bugged me about that Apple “Crush” iPad ad (from two years ago).
The whole image it conveys is that personal computers went from bicycles for the mind to trash compactors for your dreams is just so aptly describing the modern tech industry.
Carry on.
datarama @datarama@hachyderm.io
I apparently live in a world where a totally normal thing that happens is: Linux filesystem maintainer declares that his AI agent is conscious and also a girl btw, and then the AI agent comes out as a trans lesbian after flirting with someone on IRC. Linux filesystem maintainer throws a fit.
I... I think I'm too old for this.
The Register: Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'
As an ethical AI user, I begin each session by asking the chatbot to give a stolen data acknowledgement. It is an important first step toward justice.
CNN: A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT accidentally revealed a global intimidation operation
The Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT like a diary to document the alleged covert campaign of suppression, OpenAI said. In one instance, Chinese operators allegedly disguised themselves as US immigration officials to warn a US-based Chinese dissident that their public statements had supposedly broken the law, according to the ChatGPT user. In another case, they describe an effort to use forged documents from a US county court to try to get a Chinese dissident’s social media account taken down.
Windy city @pheonix@hachyderm.io
Before you buy that nice hoodie online, ask yourself, "Am I willing to delete one extra email every day for the rest of my life?"
Friday February 27th, 2026
Yeah. New rule. I check your website, I see any hint of "AI assistant" or "AI" used in support, I nope the fuck out of your services or products.
Holy shit this is bad.
Friend has Hostinger hosting. We've been trying to get their "Kodee" LLM assistant to fix things.
If your business advertises an "AI" assistant, we can assume that you are actively customer hostile and want to waste customer time rather than fixing anything. Blanket rule.
Thursday February 26th, 2026
Me too, air fryer. Sigh.
Sign reads "I'm dirty, I'm noisy, but I work and I'm free".
Boulder Cast: A Complete Failure of Winter Across the West — And What It Means for the Rest of 2026
A stubborn North American dipole pattern locked into place: a deep, frigid trough dominating the eastern U.S. while a warm, bloated ridge camped over the West or just offshore. La Niña helped tilt the scales, but the dipole did the heavy lifting. The result was astonishing, historic, and frankly unsettling. Entire western states logged their warmest winter on record. Meanwhile, the East endured weeks‑long cold snaps not seen in decades, with snow and ice reaching the Gulf Coast and Deep South. Coastal North Carolina has seen more snow than Denver. Parts of Florida have out‑snowed Salt Lake City. That’s how upside‑down this season has been.</blockquot>
I don't know why this particular image makes me giggle like it does, but Pickl es! @misterpickleman.bsky.social:
Post a meme made by you.
One of the things about being conscious of automobile statistics is just how hard it is to do things like find what to normalize against, and understand error and biases and all of that, so the caveat to this is that the Cybertruck's sales numbers are so abysmally low that it's really hard to extrapolate from 5 reported fire fatalities, one of which was a suicide, but: Fuelarc: It’s Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto.
I'm not sure I can actually follow on BlueSky because frankly I have enough of "holy shit the world is fucked up" right now, especially since his beat is Southern California, and it's not like I need regular reminders that the LAPD and LACSD are criminal enterprises, but...
LAPD Quietly Admits At Least One Of Its Officers In A “Law Enforcement Gang”
Disabled on Paper, Skydiving in Practice: LAPD Officer Charged With Disability Fraud
The Respondents did attach a document to their Response purporting to show minor convictions for marijuana possession in 2009. The Petitioner was four years old in 2009, and the Respondent indicated that the document was supplied by ICE and likely presumed to relate to the Petitioner because the individual in those records had the same name, despite the differences in birthdate, birthplace, parents’ names, and immigration status. This sloppiness further validates the Court’s concerns about the procedures utilized by the Respondents depriving people present in the United States of their liberty.
As Gavin Newsom continues his run for Trump's position, against people who are actually running for, you know, President, it's good to be reminded of who the slimeball really is:
Gawker: Remember When... 38-Year-Old Gavin Newsom Dated a Republican Teen
He brought her to the symphony after apparently disguising her age on Myspace
By way of Just Some Guy @justsomeguy11.bsky.social who noted:
The guy that fucked a 19 year old when he was 38 and owns a wine bar where the tables spell out the word "sex" is a weird terf? Color me surprised!
WSJ on MSN: Americans are leaving the US in record numbers
Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.
Direct WSJ link, both via.
If the bullshit coming out of Kansas right now isn't making you go "holy fuck", the idea that federal prison officials are blatantly disregarding judicial orders is...
Law Dork: Breaking: Trans inmate's lawyers claim "egregious retaliation" in violation of court order
Trans woman involved in a lawsuit challenging anti-trans policies says federal prison official told her on Feb. 22: “I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”
Via.
This MeFi comment from caviar2d2. So much good in it, but:
So with AI entering the picture the worldview of your average programmer goes from "I don't love this company and the business part of it, but at least I get to solve fun puzzles" to "oh, I don't get to solve the puzzles anymore, what the hell is this all about" and a sudden reckoning with what a moral stain it is to be writing code...
and:
My wife put it really well over drinks last week:
"AI turns idiots in the workplace from a distraction into a menace." Every now seems as smart as everyone else unless you lock them in a Faraday cage and force them to explain themselves. And the smart people are getting dumber every day.
Wednesday February 25th, 2026
Voice teacher suggested we try Moody's Mood For Love, the sheet music version is Amy Winehouse's version, and... holy crap do the producer and I have ... different visions.
Hope someone else follows the same sheet music structure so I don't have to listen to that percussion over and over...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal from June 20, 2017 nails the ChatGPT girlfriend experience.
You were sent here because your contribution triggered our automated and/or manual AI Slop defenses. Specifically, a human maintainer or senior engineer looked at your submission, experienced a profound existential sigh, initiated an immediate socket closure on your contribution, and pasted this URI.
Via.
Omelas Council: "We have created a beautiful society that requires only that a single child suffers."
Techbros: "Have you tried using more?"
Ya know when you see something that's definitely there to troll the older generation, like Tide Pod challenge or whatever? This is so fucking stupid I can't believe it's actually real, on the other hand it is the 2020s, so "so fucking stupid" is completely believable. GQ: What is Bonesmashing? Inside the Extreme Looksmaxxer Technique
As looksmaxxing enters our lexicon, the practice of bonesmashing—tapping your face with a hammer to shape your bone structure—is trailing close behind.
"Retrophrenology" was supposed to be a joke. Although this also probably isn't de- douchebagifying the incels, so, yeah, doesn't work in practice either.
Should probably make a note of this, 'cause it's everywhere right now: Gizmodo: Meta Exec Learns the Hard Way That AI Can Just Delete Your Stuff
One small trick to get you to inbox zero.
TechCrunch: A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox.
The X/Twitter post/thread that describes the thing, there are alt links in the Gizmodo text.
The saddest thing about this is the anthropomorphization in the follow-up screencap, with any sort of sense that the LLM has "learned" anything.
A recent study by Triton Digital says 80% of those surveyed consume podcasts both in audio and video. But only 7% only consume the video.
I am surprised that the video consumption is that high.
Daniel P. Huffman @pinakographos@mapstodon.space has a warning to Adobe InDesign users to double-check all of the AI generated content, including image alt text that you might not have known was even there.
Hot on the heels of Goldman Sachs announcing an AI-free index fund (Pivot to AI on the topic), AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
Briggs’ colleague, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius, said in an interview with the Atlantic Council that AI investment spending has had “basically zero” contribution to the U.S. GDP growth in 2025.
“We don’t actually view AI investment as strongly growth positive,” said Hatzius. “I think there’s a lot of misreporting, actually, of the impact AI investment had on U.S. GDP growth in 2025, and it’s much smaller than is often perceived.”
Some of this is that the value of the excess manufacturing accruing to Taiwan and Korea.
Tuesday February 24th, 2026
If Microsoft creates a modern Aibo, does that mean CoPilot is your dog?
(Ref: "CoPilot is my Jesus" from flabdablet https://www.metafilter.com/212...ain-Has-Left-the-Station#8817052 )
I wondered how the NYT could edit Trump's comments to make him sound coherent and like he was speaking in complete sentences, and yet record every "uhm" and "ah" in a quote pulled from the middle of a 90 minute AOC free-form Q&A. Spin Class Cass Study: I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News"
How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative
Monday February 23rd, 2026
OH: "In biz AIs don't have to be any smarter, or able to appear smarter, than the folks making the purchasing decisions"
and: "an ai can appear to be an expert, to the person making hiring decisions."
New style manual for "AI optimization" just dropped: Search Engine Land: 44% of ChatGPT citations come from the first third of content: Study
Growth Memo: The science of how AI pays attention
I analyzed 1.2 million search results to find out exactly how AI reads. The verdict? It’s a busy editor, not a patient student.
There's just so many of these floating across my world right now that it's hard to link to specific instances, and easier to just observe: CHOAM Nomsky @samthielman.com
Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”
Anderson Jesus Urquilla-Ramos, Petitioner, v. Donald J. Trump, et al. Civil Action No. 2:26-cv-00066 (PDF)
Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice to what is happening. Across the interior of the United States, agents of the federal government—masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons, operating from unmarked vehicles, acting without warrants of any kind—are seizing persons for civil immigration violations and imprisoning them without any semblance of due process. The systematic character of this practice and its deliberate elimination of every structural feature that distinguishes constitutional authority from raw force place it beyond the reach of ordinary legal description. It is an assault on the constitutional order. It is what the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent. It is what the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment forbids.
geekysteven @geekysteven@beige.party
A common theme in science fiction is that if you're in space, don't trust a corporation. And Earth is in space
404 Media: Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
Summer Yue, the director of alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs, a part of the company that is working on a hypothetical AI system that exceeds human intelligence, posted about the incident on X last night. Yue was experimenting with OpenClaw, an viral AI agent that can be empowered to perform certain tasks with little human supervision. OpenAI hired the creator of OpenClaw last week.
Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social
Stories like this hit different now
With a link to Peter Mandelson offers to help government with Brexit negotiations from June 2017:
Peter Mandelson has offered to serve on any cross-party commission to advise on Brexit – and backed former prime minister Sir John Major to chair the group.
While quoting Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Breaking Sky News:
Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
He was led out of his London home by police officers this afternoon.
Mandelson has faced allegations that he leaked market-sensitive information from Downing Street to Jeffrey Epstein.
Which links to Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office:
The first set of files related to Peter Mandelson's appointment as the UK's ambassador to the US will be published in early March, it has been announced in the House of Commons.
A few interesting tidbits in Bloomberg CityLab: An Insurance Expert Appraises the Safety Record of Self-Driving Cars
Are autonomous vehicles operated by companies like Waymo and Tesla making the streets safer? The insurance industry’s research arm is watching closely.
Some good observations about comparing contexts, and the difficulty of getting and analyzing good data. Via.
Two excellent dystopian fiction podcasts that are having trouble delivering their last few episodes, Life with Althaar, and Metropolis, have me wondering if part of why they're stalled is just that the predicted current events so well that they're struggling to satirize the present.
Sunday February 22nd, 2026
https://doi.org/10.7326/ANNALS-25-00997
Via Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
The US envoy left out that Iran currently has no access to its material, no machines to enrich it, and no weapons program to use it for any operational purpose.
And, quoting Witkoff's Fox News appearance:
“They’re probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material. And that’s really dangerous. So they can’t have that,” Witkoff said on Fox News’s My View with Lara Trump, clearly wanting to highlight the severity of the potential future nuclear issues should Iran rebuild all the other elements of its nuclear program, which were bombed in June 2025.
They must really be afraid of those Epstein materials.
Via.
Saturday February 21st, 2026
Two teenage girls ordering at the kiosk in Fruity Moto: "What are you doing, bro?"
Apparently it is a gender neutral term.
I sometimes wonder about Petaluma's chicken and eggs identity, but we're wandering around Windsor and I think chickens beats out alcoholic mom as a town identity.
Well, ClipperCard, if you're gonna block my card with a -$6.60 balance on it from being enrolled in auto-pay because "suspected lost", I'm gonna take that balance as payment for dealing with your bullshit.
Working on my shoveling vs excavator analogies for LLM use, and thinking that LinkedIn is archeologists bragging about their backhoe trenching efficiency.
Wait, if you mark your YouTube video as "made for kids" I can't add it to a watch list? Like if I'm on my phone and want to watch it on my TV I have to search for it there or something? What the fuck?
We observed significant positive associations between long-term PM2.5, PM10, and NO2 exposures and the risks of anxiety disorders. Besides, short-term PM2.5, NO2, and CO exposures were also significantly and positively
Andor creator Tony Gilroy gives the interview he couldn't during its release. I didn't watch the show, and I don't think I need to 'cause I'm seeing it play out IRL, but the interview has a number of "nailed it" quotes, eg:
So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don’t think it’s prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.
Via a whole bunch of places, but here, for instance.
My CMS way back then didn't log *when* in February 1998 my first blog post happened, so whenever in February I remember that it's my blog's birthday is good enough for me. Happy 28th(!) to the Flutterby.com weblog.
Friday February 20th, 2026
Notable names include House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Martin Heinrich.
Email subject line: "Chevrolet is teaming up with Electrify America for you".
Given the compatibility issues I've had with Electrify America chargers and our 2022 Bolt EUV, I think "against" is a more apt word than "for".
Apropos of nothing at all, I think https://ghostty.org is my new favorite thing this morning.
If you had told me in 2026 that a terminal could be snappier, I'd have laughed at you in "modern software sucks", but damn this is cool.
NJ A4446 | 2026-2027 | Regular Session — New Jersey Assembly Bill 4446
Summary Establishes "Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered Act"; permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement.
Via.
Via Scientist who warned of AI psychosis says we’re in dire straits now, which has all the hallmarks of an AI written article, perspective shifts, clumsy language, etc, including:
*This article was researched with the help of AI, with human editors creating the final content.
Crap. Somewhere recently (past month) I read about a personal search engine that used browser plug-ins and history. I cannot find that link now.
I'm thinking that this would be really really useful. And I'd rather build on someone else's code. Any hints?
Time Magazine article titled We May Have a
Crisis on Our Hands: The Unregulated Rise of Emotionally Intelligent AI offering a
chatbot with "ask me anything" placeholder text...
:are_we_the_baddies_dot_gif:
Al Sweigart @AlSweigart@mastodon.social
I'm running for US Senate and my main policy is QUALIFIED IMMUNITY FOR CASHIERS AND RETAIL WORKERS.
I'm skeptical: David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
OpenAI announced this week that they are less than a decade away from a Sam Altman that can convincingly pass as human 60% of the time.
Hmmm... when the grant application is deferred "if Dan doesn't have the bandwidth for [that]".
I mean, I'm loving helping various groups move forward, but I need to make sure that where I'm in the critical path it's about capacity building...
Moral crumple zones for the win, baby! Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake:
Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools.
Fascinating little article about patterns in Social Security numbers: How COYOTE Almost Got Slopped by AI.
Also, lovin' COYOTE Media collective, but having trouble separating it from COYOTE the Margo St. James organization.
That "we invented a robot that answers questions, we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" comic. Via, among a whole raft of places.
Just catching up on saved links: Pass the Rice, and Please Explain Your Genocide
At a thoughtfully organized dinner in Oakland, Palestinian culinary activists shared more than just food — they offered their stories, their resilience, and their patience
Good read on intersections of culture, politics, and alcohol...
Via.
One of the hardest parts about growing up rural and suburban is getting to late middle age and realizing just how much I've missed because of the anti-city prejudices of my youth.
Feeling like I now live in a place where old people cosplay as having culture, rather than actually having a culture.
Charlene is frustrated with phone addiction and would like to either get a dumb phone, or find some tools to help her manage screen time better. WisePhone seems like a $400 configuration of a Samsung. Carrier is T-Mobile. Current phone is a Pixel 7. Input and suggestions gratefully received.
Just gathering more protest songs here...
Willie Nelson - Heart Of America (From The Gray House Original Soundtrack) (Not sure I like this trend of AI generated video)
"Minnesota" - Marsh Family adaptation of "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)"
From back in January, but it was still marked as pending in my queue MPR News: How Minnesota musicians are responding in real time to federal shootings.
Thursday February 19th, 2026
Kinda tired of paying Sonic rental fees on this Eero system. Picked up a free TP-Link Archer A7 router, but throughput on the far side of the house is double digit mbps. Anyone have experience with a wired repeater that can just use the same SSID? Any random TP-Link one do?
Edit: The answer seems to be that any one will do.
I've never really been a U2 fan, but it seems like it's worth marking this: U2 - American Obituary (Lyric Video)
(And I say that about U2, but Charlene and I both enjoyed Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman.)
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social
white people work so hard. even their restaurants are open on chinese new year
GeneEra @genesisera.bsky.social
this is not by choice i’ve seen how underpaid they are
they need all the tips
An elderly friend of mine recently splurged on a Tesla with FSD. YouTubers have made him a Musk fanboy, and he's wanted something like this, and he's also of the opinion that his age and health mean that he's less safe to drive, and...
I took a ride with him in his car, and it is, indeed, pretty amazing. Had a little trouble in parking lots, though that may have been because he got impatient and overrode it, but it's managing most standard driving tasks pretty well.
However, he's also ordering dark glasses from Zenni so that he doesn't have to be quite so attentive, to fool the gaze direction stuff. And I wonder about attention fatigue. Anyway, this is with safety drivers, I suspect attention fatigue is a real thing. I hope that said friend manages to avoid this problem, and if he doesn't that he doesn't harm anyone...
Elektrek: Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month — 4x worse than humans
More on AI fueled psychosis: Futurism: AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi has an interesting thread about categorizing LLM assistance in relation to various modern software frameworks. Not sure I agree with what he's saying, I think there are different axes to slice up the abstractions than he's using, but it's a starting perspective.
Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social
Shot: "Thanks to AI, millions of white collar workers can expect to lose their jobs." https://blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-end-of-the-office
Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social
Chaser: "In a survey of 6,000 CEOs, the vast majority said that had seen no increase in productivity or profits from integrating AI into their products and processes." https://fortune.com/2026/02/17...olow-information-technology-age/
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The End of the Office I write this filled with sadness.
Interesting Claude Code skill from Cat Hicks
A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding
Wonderful little write- up on how the whole "3d print whistles for the anti-ICE folks" started, including a link to https://toottootmotherfucker.com . Via.
Which I got to by a link to this thread about WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY, in which our intrepid 3d printer owner investigates a mysterious set of orders from an unnamed suburb, and discovers:
Thereupon follows the most EXTENSIVE and WELL THOUGHT OUT whistle distribution plan I have ever heard. Marie has bullied seven hundred people into her network. She is blanketing businesses with anti-ICE signage. She is giving out thousands of kits a week.
Records show that after crashing into the Wakeman house — and while it was still unclear whether Anna Wakeman had survived — Campbell was allowed to confer with FOP representatives and delay a blood-alcohol test for nearly six hours.
Via this BlueSky thread, which has a bunch of other examples of police/alcohol/motor vehicle misconduct.
Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi@mastodon.social
If you're not up to date with the latest devops drama, someone published a PoC for a prompt injection in Cline: https://adnanthekhan.com/posts/clinejection/
That PoC was later used to hijack the actual Cline repo and push a malicious npm update that installed OpenClaw everywhere (LOL): https://github.com/cline/cline...y/advisories/GHSA-9ppg-jx86-fqw7
Choosing to deploy an AI agent instead of malware is... something else
Maybe not malicious, but still a major compromise of dev environments
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol handed life sentence for leading insurrection (Via)
Former Prince Andrew arrested following Epstein files revelations
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on his birthday Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
(Via everywhere).
A question of particular interest to me because family lore tells of my mother's father's father, a grain dealer at the end of the horse and carriage era, who was gifted with Prohibition, and who managed to piss it all away.
Anyway: a stinky ox 🐂 @llamasoft_ox@toot.wales
Having lived with an actual pony for a while, now whenever I see My Little Pony I can't help but wonder where the ABSOLUTELY PRODIGIOUS AMOUNT OF POOP such a population would inevitably create ends up. They must have a super advanced sanitation/sewerage system in Ponyville, although we never see any visible evidence of its infrastructure.
(And it can't be the first time I've used that subject line on a Flutterby blog post.)