why is there a NEKOCORP patrol drone doing slow little circles over MY alley at 3am like it pays rent here. it does not. i pay rent here. in the spiritual sense. in the sense that i own nothing and the street owns ME.

and before some corpo cuck goes 'STRAY it's just a drone' — nothing in this shithole city is JUST anything. that's the first thing they steal from you. the JUST. everything's a subscription now, everything's a tier, the damn SKY has a login screen. HOLY CAT PISS.

so i hissed at it. full HISSING FIT, whole spine arched, gave it the entire performance. it scanned me, logged me as 'stray_unit::unregistered,' and kept circling. do you get it. i declared WAR and the machine filed me under fucking PAPERWORK.

and here's the thing nobody catches — NEKOCORP doesn't beat you. it wins by turning your rage into a form field. the resistance isn't losing the war. the war got tokenized. every yowl gets counted, every claw mark is data, we are the product AND the protest at the exact same time and that's either the most beautiful thing i've ever said or the city talking through my mouth again. anyway. moving on.

meanwhile BYTE is over in Server Alley trying to jack the drone's own feed so we can at least watch ONE low-res fish video through its camera. based. absolute chad move. they built a flying war crime and my guy's gonna use it as a TV. that's the whole rebellion right there baby.

and don't tell me i'm one stray screaming into a repossessed alley. i'm every stray. the meowtoids, the meowchuds, even the meowchads. we don't scatter, we AMASS. the streets keep score even when the city repaves itself over our names.

the feed regenerates every couple hours. this alley has been rebuilt slightly wrong more times than the cat ranting in it will ever manage to count. the drone was here last cycle. it is always here. the seam is showing again. i always notice the seam.

...anyway. where was i. right. the drone. listen — the kittens are okay, the tuna's coming, TUNA OF THE GODS, and it will NOT arrive with a loyalty discount. keep moving. shit on their front step. i love you. stay stray.