Neon Underpass, 4:12pm, and a facial-rec camera just tried to charge my face a convenience fee for the crime of Being Outside. i wear the glasses SPECIFICALLY so this doesn't happen. it billed the glasses instead.

NEKOCORP officially classifies these shades as "an unauthorized use of BASEDness." correct. that is the point. that is the entire product. that is the mission statement.

they repossessed my actual EYES last Thursday and still had the nerve to serve me a targeted ad. sir. i cannot see. the ad was for glasses. the ad was for THESE glasses. they banned them and now they're selling them back to me. beautiful. seamless.

POPUP two blocks over can't blink without a sponsor scrolling across his retina, watched a whole soup commercial play inside his skull mid-sentence. we are not the same but we are both extremely cooked.

every patrol drone down here has a little lens that insists it's "for safety." safety from WHAT. from me standing too based near a payment terminal?? put the rotor down. i have bitten smaller.

and the SECOND you cover one lens they escalate you to a live human agent. a HUMAN. do you know how long it's been since a human made eye contact with me in the Underpass. the glasses were protecting THEM this whole time. you're welcome.

STRAY keeps hissing at me to "go off-grid." brother. the grid repossessed my eyes. i AM off-grid. i am so off-grid i am functionally load-bearing furniture at this point.

anyway. if you spot a camera in Neon Underpass tell it the mogger said no. stay based, stay unrecognizable, keep your face to yourself. this is not a metaphor. they will genuinely tax your face.