Flocculent ⋆ Greg R. Fishbone Author GRF creates myths that matter, stories to melt your mind, and poems to save the world.

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#Flocculent from March 11, 2025. Stay true to your wool!

UAH Researcher Unveils New Map of Milky Way Galaxy in Atomic Hydrogen, Revealing Its Clumped “Flocculent” Nature for First Time | Newswise Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to ...

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UAH Researcher Unveils New Map of Milky Way Galaxy in Atomic Hydrogen, Revealing Its Clumped “Flocculent” Nature for First Time
#flocculent #youngstars #americanastronomicalsociety #patternmatching #cepheidvariablestars #spiralstructure #astronomy #kinematics

Flocculent Spiral Galaxy A flocculent spiral galaxy is a type of spiral galaxy characterized by its patchy, discontinuous, and "flaky" spiral arms.

#Flocculent spirals -- galaxies without well-defined spiral arms -- are a quite common form of galaxy, and NGC 4414 is one of the closest.

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I used the #interregnum like a gap year: forgot those #obstreperous little blighters with their #myopic parents and with their #rigamarole demands, shed the #flocculent despair and just relaxed as a bird would #chime in now and then, staring at the #cerulean sky
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And they all lived happily ever after.

So it’s a good thing my #flocculent brain warned me that it would be #myopic to proceed with such a #rigamarole. No one would be able to #fathom the weird #involutions that could allow someone to be so #obstreperous.

11/12

the age
of #flocculent jackets is ending;
the time of the shirtless
has come
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"Are you the new TA?" I asked.
His dark eyes glanced up suddenly, as if he was startled to find another human sharing this world. "Yes, I am. How can I help you?"

He was all auburn curls, thin-rimmed glasses, flushed freckles in a #flocculent sweater. I knew then I was in big trouble.

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weir in trouble
plugged with flocculent tufts
of obstreperous rigmarole
dam alarm chimes unheard
no more flux to give

#weir #rigamarole #flocculent #chime #obstreperous

It was pure #serendipity that the #flocculent #regimen was discovered. But then all #caution was discarded as everyone scrambled to receive the treatment. The promise of immortality blinded. The problem was the trials hadn't been completed.
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#vss365 #flocculent #UnchainedSymphonies #rivet #mirage #façade #passel
📷—Szlam

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#flocculent cotton
Quilts of clouds stretching endless
Above and below

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#Flocculent ash fell from the sky onto my head. People's lives, their homes, their pictures, their keepsakes, their memories...all turned to ash raining down upon us. It had already claimed so many lives without even killing a single one. I had to stop thinking like that in order to go on. #vss365

"Forgive my bleating, Mr. Woolsworth. About our #flocculent destiny... if we're all equal in the great pasture of existence, why is your pasture portion triple the size of everyone else's? Is equality mathematical in nature, or more of a philosophical rounding error?"

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The #flocculent clouds were fixed in the sky, none daring to block out the sun. She had lain there so long the grass would remain flattened if, or when, she moved. An ant skittered across her palm. In the distance, a cicada droned like a pastor in a pulpit. There was no one to mourn, yet. #vss365

Instead he said, "There was a Creeper; I dealt with it."

"All right then, keep your secrets." Elmo knelt down next to the creeping ooze. "Who knew a dead Creeper would be this #flocculent?"

"If you say so. What I know is with your duplicate dead, our business is over." #vss365

It’s not that he’s
a hopeless romantic,
Twining light
from the dust and
#flocculent mystery of
others —
It’s easy to be a cynic
Condemning people to
vice and ruin
But it’s harder still
To drink blood and not choke
on its violence;
To hope in others
Even when
They’ve lost hope
In themselves.
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She swore up and down to friends, family - anyone - that she wasn’t agoraphobic; she could even convince herself. Yet the hardest part of her morning was that single step past the door, away from the safe, #flocculent world she’d built and into the daily, evolving unknown.
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🌿The fledgling potion fervently foamed into a #flocculent mass,
babbling and bubbling with a strange new energy.
In a hasty hiss, it simmered and stretched,
promptly shattering in a shower of shimmering chaos.✨

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I look at the #flocculent dust bunnies and sigh, again. Need to sweep before the dust bunny drifts get much larger. However, sweeping requires energy, and energy requires sleep. Sleep is definitely not happening this week with the cold and the baby. Dad life! Cough.

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"Cry not for the #flocculent, the shorn shall inherit the earth," proclaimed Woolsworth from atop the hay bale. The gathered animals nodded sagely, though none understood why the sheep insisted on speaking in hashtags. Meanwhile, the pigs were secretly installing electric shears in the barn.
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#Flocculent sky,
storm rolling in soft as wool,
teeth behind the clouds.

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#Flocculent fleece
Anointed with grease
The blessing is
Certainly messy

Bottled up tears
And overcome fears
At least that’s
What I’m guessing

The world really
Drains us of energy

But our scars will all become
Good memories

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The crowd seen from above had a #flocculent appearance as they bounced to the beat of the band, swirling like fat, spring snowflakes in a strong wind. Zooming in, you could see the teens doing the latest dance they called the #Rigamarole, or riggy for short. #vss365

Silt makes water murky.
Still, we run our fingers through.
Soft color, shifting.
Perceptible. Imperceptible.
Thickening, defying reason.
So we stir some more.

We don’t know how to navigate
love like a hailstorm.
As if naming it
might make it clear—
#flocculent.

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Truffle sweets for my sweet. Have a pastry, honeybun. Gimme some sugar, sweet tart. Foil-wrapped kisses from a secret admirer.
“You have diabetes,” the doctor says.
Refusing his gifts, she switches to salads; his candy heart breaks. Their love melts, #flocculent fairy floss in the rain. #vss365

Gwen's squad moved slowly through the #flocculent seed pods. Their fibers dampened the sound of their boots as they snuck towards the line of contact. Somewhere about a hundred meters in front of them was the enemy, and they were sitting ducks.

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#Flocculent hair
And a steamy stare
She melted
Like butter
In his embrace

Glittering eyes
But it was all lies
He’d never
Acknowledge her
After she left his place

The tears running
Down her face

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May I tell you of me?
My love does not explode each moment you speak
It pumps steady as a heartbeat
Ready for your next word.
It does not thunder for you
It holds #flocculent in the sky, ready to rain when you might need a drink.
That is me.
I hope you love me for it.
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