Gabriel Melo
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Gabriel Melo
@omniplatypus.bsky.social
Android developer, guitar player, TTRPG lover, cat dad, leftist and Kitchener resident!
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

From most recent:

Parabolus (Tool cover band)
Animals As Leaders + Plini
Sungazer
Tool
Thank You Scientist + Between The Buried And Me
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

The String Cheese Incident
The String Cheese Incident
The String Cheese Incident
Phish
The String Cheese Incident
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:

Kendrick Lamar
Freezepop
Lucky boys confusion
They might be giants
Postal service/death cab for cutie
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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If you're in Waterloo Region, which organizations or initiatives are you aware of that have started locally since 2020 that help create a safe and thriving community? I'm writing something for Citified and I'd love to hear from you! Police-free and/or community-led approaches are especially helpful.
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Nessa hora queria estar no Rio de novo.
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week:
- landlords demanding workplace logins to scrape your paystubs
- 18 lawyers explain why they used AI (after getting caught)
- subscribers: the Ruby drama

Apple/Spotify/YouTube: www.404media.co/podcast-land...
Podcast: Landlords Demand Your Workplace Logins to Scrape Paystubs
How companies working for landlords are scraping data inside corporate environments; lawyers explain why they used AI (after getting caught); and all the Ruby drama.
www.404media.co
October 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Every one of these peace activists is currently in real life threatening danger, all because they're bringing baby formula to starving children. We shouldn't shut up about it. Israel needs to know that hurting them would be a scandal they'll never recover from.
September 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I could swear there was a whole right-wing conspiracy movement / cult focused on unmasking the secret pedophiles in elite circles who run everything, anyone know what they’re up to these days?
September 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I didn't even know it was possible to spend millions doing nothing and then have to spend more millions to stop doing nothing.
Hopes for all-day everyday trains to Toronto has been successfully killed 😭
Hot take: I think this fiasco should be the last nail in the coffin of expansive transit P3 arrangements here. Rather than hoping a consortium would fix Metrolinx’s culture and operations, the province needs to hire, empower, and hold accountable leaders who will do that directly.
How Metrolinx’s plan to deliver European-style train service went off the rails
GO Expansion will still transform Greater Golden Horseshoe transit — but likely won’t be as ambitious as what was planned just three years ago
www.thetrillium.ca
June 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It's so hard to listen to playlists that include songs I'm used to listening to in an album context. Feels like they're wrong and incomplete.
I'm sure there's a German word for this.
June 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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I probably don’t actually need two bikes. Anyone local in KW interested in my old Dutch bike?

It’s a big 61cm Workcycles/Azor omafiets, 8 speed, lots of features, in good shape. Think $800 or so for the whole package as pictured is fair. DM if you want to know more
May 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Since being elected, I've been listening to you, and amplifying your priorities in Parliament to get our community the results we need.

Whether it's on tariffs, on housing, on grocery prices, on healthcare - that's exactly what I commit to continuing to do if re-elected.
April 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Anybody out there in the great blue sky knows of an artist with the same vibes as Hermeto Pascoal?
March 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Poilievre still hasn’t done a full-throated denunciation of Trump, has he. Someone who’s soft on Trump doesn’t have what it takes to stand up for Canada
March 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Today I found out my therapist is also a poet. It sucks that I can't read their stuff and become friends with them.
February 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Today I found out that reading poetry can be an exercise on listening to yourself through someone else's voice.
February 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Thanks to my therapist for helping me allow myself to cry. And thanks to my uncle for making me cry for the first time as a 30 year old.
January 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Better late than never.
New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...
Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X
Dozens of big subreddits have already banned all Twitter links, and posts about potential bans are some of the most popular on the site.
www.404media.co
January 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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DIY Hormone Therapy: Everything I Can Legally Tell You

Out now on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/lilya...
Lily Alexandre — DIY Hormone Therapy: Everything I Can Legally Tell You
As trans healthcare bans spread across the world, people are taking matters into their own hands, and using unprescribed hormones bought in secret. Here's what you need to know.
nebula.tv
January 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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DIY HRT: Everything I Can Legally Tell You

My guide to do-it-yourself hormone therapy, months in the making, is out now on YouTube. Tell your friends! xoxo

youtu.be/o2Ggwe2j0Gc
January 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Gritty continues to be a real one
January 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Please Sungazer don't go way past 11pm. I have a Go train to catch.
January 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Stop cross-posting. Let X die. Don’t support it with your content.
November 30, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Running 'brew update' and 'gem update' and 'bundle update' multiple times in the hopes that they fix my problems (they do not fix my problems)
December 31, 2024 at 6:47 PM
3 injuries in 5 NBA games today, that's gotta be a curse.
Luka, AD and Porzingis are out.
December 26, 2024 at 5:10 AM
Finally deleted Twitter. I don't know why it took me so long.
December 21, 2024 at 4:55 AM