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Matt Montazzoli

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

That’s wild. Now that you mention it I remember similar visual “cues” in AQIZ sizzle reels from Iraq.

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

That’s wild. Now that you mention it I remember similar visual “cues” in AQIZ sizzle reels from Iraq.

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

What does the inverted red triangle mean?

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lifestyle for some of us.

A page from the Guide to Australian Birds featuring the humble bush stone curlew

Frozen bush stone curlew chilling in front of some trees in Townsville

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah, brother!

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

Not gonna do the environmental damage to AI generate Rusty’s dad patrolling Honiara, but I like to think he was on a Lilia rotation.

www.defence.gov.au

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ for sure applies to those Foghorn Leghorn in a small package bastards.

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

I am literally feuding with a priest friend because he shares your failure to appreciate true avian supremacy.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t get me wrong, love me some kukkaburras and cassowaries and magpies are born killers after my own heart, but these little freeze-when-spotted, scream-at-night weirdos are my hands down favorite.

What's that Scream in the Night? It could be a Bush Stone Curlew #birds #australia #birdcall

YouTube video by Wood Wide Web

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

Thicc knees

Bush stone-curlew
Burhinus grallarius
Give it up for the goggle-eyed freak
With their haunting nighttime wails, bulging, googly eyes and bodies propped up on ridiculously long legs, these nocturnal, ground-dwelling birds look like something out of a Halloween parade. Hammered by foxes and cats in the south, they are still thriving in the north and can even be found in Brisbane's city centre.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

Vote curlew or GTFO.

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

This makes Hebrew school seem tame as hell by comparison.

Snowden St. @snowden.st · May 14

Yeah, this was in Dallas in the late 90s, but we had 4 armed men come in with real unloaded guns, and take a few of us aside. Said they were here to kill believers, and asked if we were believers. After we all said "Yes", they unmasked themselves as dads from church.

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 1d

I’d echo Isbell, Childers, and add Immortal Technique.

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 3d

I used to have the soundtrack on CD (!) and it slapped. Alas, Apple Music only offers the score which… doesn’t.

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 3d

Thoughts and prayers.

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 3d

Genuinely curious: what is the party line on this?

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 4d

So, there is a theory that a GTC purchase can never violate the Anti-Deficiency Act, but I’m not sure we want to test it on a department-wide basis.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t think you can use it for pay and allowances, unless you put SM on some truly batshit individual contracts to try and shoehorn into the statute, but never say never with the current crew.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 4d

I kinda wonder if this is a wink-and-nod at some Feed and Forage Act shenanigans… or just a disconnect from actual reality.

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 4d

does he only own one shirt

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 5d

This was the bit I was thinking of - understandably not indexed under 75RR, and again, distracted by the latest foibles of the Detroit Society for Blood Pressure Elevation.

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 5d

Do we know the overlap on the “it’s bad” and “I’ve done it” portions of the Venn diagram? Wonder how much of this is fellas who touched the financial stove, as it were.

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 5d

The title of the book oversells the stakes of the battle, but it illustrates your thesis nicely.

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POSTSCRIPT
It can be argued that the Second World War was the first time since the Revolutionary War era that America's military leadership incorporated special operators into combat zones at a large scale.
Further, any detailed study of the 2nd and Sth Ranger Battalions following the Normandy invasion only reinforces the notion that army commanders just did not always know how to deploy an elite, if unique, fighting force. That said, the Rangers' ability to accomplish any combat mission that the war called for undoubtedly shaped their military doctrine, in particular their special skills as a lightning attack force on the battlefield.
World War II was the crucible in which the Rangers birthed the future for special operations in the modern American army. It was the Ranger campaigns in the North African, Mediterranean, Euro-pean, and Pacific Theaters that, for better or worse, foreshadowed the shape of future United States military operations from Vietnam to Afghanistan to Iraq. It is an interesting thought experiment to contemplate what the likes of Wild Bill Darby and Big Jim Rudder would make of that.

Cover of
BOB DRURY
AND
TOM CLAVIN
THE
LAST HILL
THE EPIC STORY OF
A RANGER BATTALION AND THE BATTLE THAT DEFINED WWIL

Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 5d

Cisterna as a verb, a man after my own heart.

Rangers in the Heurtgenwald also illustrate your principle nicely - an elite infantry unit sent to take/hold a key objective, utterly annihilated in the process.

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Matt Montazzoli @legalleadtheway.bsky.social · 5d

… but a quick scan while half-watching the Lions didn’t turn it up.

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