Factory Two

Factory Two is a community maker space in downtown Flint, MI, empowering and transforming our community through learning, sharing, and creating.

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Check out @FactoryTwo

https://t.co/OY9awfo4I4

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Looking for space for your small business or entrepreneurial endeavor? Note that this is a 'quiet space,' and not suitable for band practice, or other noisy or high traffic uses. Rent is $800/month, and includes utilities and Internet. Email [email protected] for more info.

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Writer Funnies!

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fae (xe/xyr): may I have your pronouns?
me (They/them): Sure! They/Them
fae (They/them): Thanks 😊
me ( / ): wait...

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Today I learned there is a "Standin' on The Corner Foundation"

It's a nonprofit based in Winslow, Arizona, very much in the same spirit as @FactoryTwo, actually, using community energy and creativity to revitalize a town that got left behind.
Winslow was a thriving town until the 1970s, when it declined as the interstate bypassed it, as happened to many Route 66 towns. Starting in 1994, the Standin' On The Corner Foundation (originally called the La Posada Foundation) formed as a nonprofit dedicated to the rebirth and restoration of historic downtown Winslow. WikipediaStandinonthecorner
Their anchor project was leveraging a very specific piece of pop culture: the song "Take It Easy," written by Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey and made famous by the Eagles, which includes the lyric about standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. Between 1997 and the park's opening, unpaid volunteers put together design concepts and construction plans, with the rule that if it wasn't in the song, it wouldn't be in the park.
The park includes land donated by the Kaufman family, a two-story trompe-l'œil mural by artist John Pugh, a life-sized bronze statue by sculptor Ron Adamson of a 1970s troubadour with a guitar, all surrounded by donor bricks inscribed with stories of fondness for Winslow.
After Glenn Frey passed away in 2016, a statue in his likeness was unveiled at the park that September.
Beyond the park, the Foundation's mission is providing leadership and vision for preserving Winslow's natural and man-made resources while planning community growth, and they run one of Arizona's longest-running music festivals on the last weekend of September.
Basically: took one famous lyric, built a tourist anchor around it, used that to fund broader downtown revitalization.

Scrappy nonprofit urbanism at its finest.

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Here's your feel good news for the day my friends in the middle of this dumpster fire we call Twitter.

The Artemis II crew broke the spaceflight record for the farthest humans have ever been from Earth,

and then, they did something truly amazing

The crew proposed naming a crater after mission commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll Taylor Wiseman, who died of cancer in 2020.

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen made the radio call, audibly emotional, saying
"We lost a loved one, her name was Carroll, the spouse of Reid, the mother of Katey and Ellie... it's a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carroll."
Wiseman put a hand on Hansen's shoulder,
Christina Koch wiped tears from her eyes,
and all four broke into a group hug
while mission control observed nearly a full minute of silence before responding:

"Integrity and Carroll Crater, loud and clear."

The part that makes this even better,

Reid Wiseman later revealed that his three crewmates came up with the idea themselves and approached him about it.
"That was an emotional moment for me, and I just thought that was just a total treasure that they had thought through this and they had offered this,"

The crater sits just on the nearside of the near/far boundary,

meaning at certain times during the moon's transit
it is actually visible from Earth.

Carroll was a pediatric nurse practitioner and NICU nurse
who died in May 2020
after a five-year battle with cancer.

The name still has to be formally approved by the International Astronomical Union, as a precedent, Jim Lovell proposed naming a mountain "Mount Marilyn" after his wife on Apollo 8 in 1968, but IAU didn't formally approve it until 2017.

So "Carroll Crater" will be official for decades

before it's "officially" official.

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Microsoft is killing Publisher in October 2026.

Not PowerPoint. I know. I panicked too.
(along with the entire DOD)

If you're still making flyers in Publisher

now would be a good time to learn you have other options

and also that it's 2026.

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Due to scheduling issues the April record show has been moved to June 6. Vendor inquiries to: [email protected]

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If you write, you should be engaging with other writers

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my morning coding, I had to phone a friend

Okay this is genuinely hilarious and also a perfect Easter metaphor
it died, it rose again, it cannot be killed.
The evidence is now conclusive:

Explorer sees it ✓
UAC prompts for admin to delete it ✓
Elevated delete attempt → "Invalid MS-DOS function" ✓
PowerShell (admin) → "does not exist" ✓

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@DocAtCDI if you want a raise you just have to ask for it Doc

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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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just got a shout from @FactoryTwo they're lookin for new or gently used SD cards (the tiny memory card used in phones and cameras)

if you have one sitting around
and care to donate
drop it in an envelope and mail it to
Factory Two
129 N Grand Traverse
[phone]
C/O Jewel

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Keep an eye out for the next Women's Home Repair Bootcamp cohort!

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Tonight at 5:30pm! Join us at Factory Two for this free workshop on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) presented by Flint DiSCoTech. Online option available.
https://t.co/BRvptmf1WU