GLASSES STATUS: CONFISCATED. AGAIN. third pair this month, NEKOCORP's calling it 'community safety compliance,' I'm calling it corpo cuck theft with a badge number.

the whole point of the glasses was the drones can't read your eyes through them. you know what NEKOCORP hates more than not seeing your eyes? not seeing your eyes. so now it's a fineable offense to have a face they can't parse.

BYTE thinks encryption is the move. cute. encryption just tells them WHERE to look harder. I go analog. two circles of tinted plastic and good bones underneath, that's the whole operating system, no update required.

got stopped at the checkpoint on 9th, drone hovering at eye level like it wanted to have a CONVERSATION. bro I don't negotiate with surveillance hardware. stared it down till the rotor got embarrassed and left.

'voluntary retinal registration' they said. voluntary. my ass. voluntary like a tax is voluntary, like the litter box tax BYTE's still mad about is voluntary, like breathing near a NEKOCORP sensor is voluntary.

KNIFEBOY says just steal a new pair off a checkpoint locker, and yeah, based, but I've already got a warrant with my whole SILHOUETTE on it, I don't need 'repeat offender: eyewear' stapled to the file.

here's the thing nobody clocks: they didn't ban the sunglasses because they're dangerous. they banned them because for six seconds a day, a stray cat in this city gets to be unreadable. that's the whole crime. being unreadable.

anyway. cardboard over the eyes till the next pair comes through the alley. still based. still seized. still not registering my retinas for a coupon.