Multistreams + Multiverses
Modern Marvels > Marvel
On this day in 1903, the Wright Brothers defied gravity and took flight for the very first time. It was a small hop for man, but a giant leap for humankind—a modern marvel that launched us into the skies, beyond the clouds, and eventually into the stars.
Fast forward 121 years to today, and while I wasn’t exactly soaring above the Earth, I am flying high—on my own supply?—after an early-morning achievement: I finally figured out how to multistream on BOTH YouTube and Twitch for the very first time.
The Wright Brothers got two wings off the ground. I managed to get two platforms streaming in sync—and trust me, that feels almost as miraculous.
Now, I’m not sure how my brain decided to go from multistreams vs. multiverses, but here we are…along for the ride. Something about hopping between platforms got me thinking of alternate realities—maybe one where I stick to just YouTube for streaming, and another where Twitch reigns supreme.
Somewhere in my own personal Marvel-like multiverse, there’s a version of me still fumbling with settings in OBS Studio, still wondering why both streams aren’t working.
But not this time. This version of me did it.
Are mine Marvel-level productions? Hardly. But they are proofs modern marvels come in all shapes and sizes, from propeller-powered flights to platform-powered streams.
So, whether you’re a YouTube loyalist or a Twitch fan, you’re cordially invited to check out the stream—or the replay—on whichever platform you prefer:
Somewhere out there, the Wright Brothers are probably shaking their heads at me for comparing a stream to a flight. But hey, progress is progress.
Here’s to more flights—and more streams.
Thanks for reading, subscribing, and watching!
Clint
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Queer: Umbrella? Slur? Identity? Don't answer until you've heard this story. (Geeky Justin) 📺
Multistream to Twitch, YouTube, Tiktok, all at the same time (Senpai Gaming) 📺
ON THIS DAY = DECEMBER 17
BIRTHDAYS
1760 = Deborah Sampson = American soldier (disguised as a man) 🌈
1859 = Paul César Helleu = French painter and illustrator
1903 = Ray Noble = English bandleader, = composer = and actor
1904 = Paul Cadmus = American painter 🌈
1913 = Burt Baskin = American businessman and Baskin-Robbins co-founder
1929 = William Safire = American journalist and author
1930 = Armin Mueller-Stahl = German actor and painter
1930 = Bob Guccione = American photographer and Penthouse founder
1931 = Dave Madden = Canadian-American actor
1941 = Dave Dee = English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 = Chris Matthews = American journalist and author
1945 = Jacqueline Wilson = English children's literature novelist 🌈
1946 = Eugene Levy = Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
1953 = Bill Pullman = American actor
1958 = Mike Mills = American bass player = songwriter = and producer
1959 = Gregg Araki = American filmmaker 🌈
1969 = Chuck Liddell = American mixed martial artist and kick-boxer
1970 = Sean Patrick Thomas = American actor
1973 = Rian Johnson = American filmmaker
1974 = Duff Goldman = American chef and tv personality
1974 = Giovanni Ribisi = American actor
1974 = Marissa Ribisi = American actor
1974 = Sarah Paulson = American actor 🌈
1975 = Milla Jovovich = Ukrainian-American actor
1981 = Jerry Hsu = American skateboarder and photographer
HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES
EVENTS
1892 = The first issue of Vogue is published.
1903 – The Wright Brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1969 = Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
1970 = Nine leaders of the women’s liberation movement, including Gloria Steinem, hold a press conference in NYC to express their “solidarity with the struggle of homosexuals….”
1982 = Tootsie, starring Dustin Hoffman, is released in theaters.
1989 = The Simpsons premieres with "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".
1999 = Magnolia, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, is released.
2003 = Sex work rights activists establish December 17 (or "D17") as International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers to memorialize victims of a serial killer who targeted prostitutes, and highlight State violence against sex workers by police and others.
PHOTO + QUOTE OF THE DAY
“If only my works could become better known without me as a personality becoming better known, then I could enjoy my enlarged reputation more than I do.”
Paul Cadmus
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The video on "queer" had come up on my YT feed but I chose not to watch it because I felt that he and I would agree. Having watched it, I am totally aligned with what he says in the video.
I came out, other than earlier to my family, in 1972 as i was completing my professional qualifications as a clinical psychologist. Some of my professors and fellow students urged me to have aversion therapy - they meant it quite caringly. I refused. I was homosexual - an adjective referring to my sexual attraction, not a noun and not an identity.
I joined the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) which had urged the change in criminal law in 1967. It was an integrative group but I did mix with peopIe with a more militant and separatist view. I then got elected to the executive committee and re-elected until 1977. I was part of the international conference that decided that decided to be more inclusive and use LGTB as the umbrella term. I would then refer to myself as gay again as an adjective not a noun.
I was carrying out my doctoral research, very part-time, while working in general mental health but specialising in LGBT affirmative approaches. I saw many clients, including 4 MTF and 2 FTM trans individuals, during those five years.
My theoretical, academic and philosphical/political approach was ingrationist as I saw (and see) dimensions and scales rather than categorical boxes. For me, someone could be 5%, 23% 74% gay/lesbian is the adjectival description of their sexuality. I saw a range of gender positions from fluid, non-binary, gender non-conforming to trans. Again, adjectives and non-categorical. All of this was consistent with my PhD thesis in 1981.
Consequently, I have rejected the idea of labels though I don't mind people taking on a label for themselves. I can iunderstand people wanting to have an identity but homosexual, gay or queer does identify me or limit me.
Queer was an insult to me - as was puff, nancy-boy, pansy, bumboy or whatever. I still don't like it - unconventional would be more appropriate but I don't want that label either. Gay wasn't accurate. Most people whom I saw in clinics (or outside) were not happy little bunnies. Homophobia still lives and breathes. People still get imprisoned or executed for being different. I don't see people as different though we are all individuals, unique.
Is a teenage boy who wanks with other bouys at 13 or 14 just exploring or experiementing? Is a homie who gives bro-jobs to other homies when they are both intoxicated, not "gay" if they keep their socks on?
It doesn't make sense to me to say that eveyone is bi, any more than it is useful to say everyone is gay or straight.
I have to be sensitive and accept the fact that most people have an unsophisticated view of sex and gender. Some see some words as insulting, others want a more comfortable word as an umbrella, some people want to challenge and fight the norm of heterosexuality, some of us want to see all people as fellow humans, brothers and sisters, whatever their colour, ability/disability, sexual preferences, gender, sex, religion, political beliefs and so on.
Like Ann Richards' hair-do: It defied gravity.