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Don[ny]ovan

@dgschell.bsky.social
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M*rketing Analyst 📊 Cat dad 🐈 Married to @taystrom.bsky.social 👬 Gay 🌈 Travel ✈️ PNW 🏞️ Geek 🧙‍♂️🚀 Civic engagement nerd 🗳️ Prone to tpyos 🙆‍♂️ linktr.ee/dgschell

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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 5h
My thoughts usually just revolve around cats these days
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 5h
Why I keep many thoughts to myself...
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And now a Tuscan-inspired pasta dish with salmon 😋
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How do I achieve this level of zen?
Cat basking in the sun spot on the couch
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Made some seasonally appropriate baked apple cider donuts 😋
Baked apple cider donuts
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Had a great time playing all the games for Dorian's birthday 🥳
Group selfie at Activate Tukwila Our team in first place on the leader board Me and my team
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This was a decent novel. It was good but I didn't love it. It's pacing felt uneven, where the first half dragged and the end felt rushed. One or two subplots probably could've been edited out. I didn't connect with many of the characters, though Innes and Ella were the best. I'd still recommend it.
John of John by Douglas Stuart
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Because it's jocktober 🎃
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last minute hump day post 🍑
Mirror pic
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Arm & shoulder day 💪
Gym mirror pics wearing oliv and green tank and black shorts
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
John of John
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Getting caught up on ST:SNW and I just think that Sam Kirk should get more screen time 🫦
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Basically just this. Did the number go up or down enough compared to the control group? If so, then is suggests that the ad did indeed have an impact on consumer behavior or perception.
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chest day 💪
Shirtless gym restroom pic
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whew. Book 2 of the Reign of the Empire series did not live up to expectations. This sequel was much less of an interesting story than the first novel.
Star Wars: Reign of the Empire Book2: Edge of the Abyss by Rebecca Roanhorse
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The neighbors are not being very friendly today
Disgruntled looking orange cat
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The final scores. It was a nail biter.
Blue = 136
Yellow = 141
Red = 145
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just a little Sunday funday game night 🇪🇸🇵🇹
Iberia ticket to ride
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
FYI it's a full moon tonight 🌕
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You don't say! Not like we haven't felt the impacts at all /s Study link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Abstract
Existing accounts of presidential particularism emphasize the targeted distribution of benefits to electorally valuable constituencies. This research note demonstrates that presidential particularism can also operate punitively, through the selective imposition of costs on constituencies that provided weaker electoral support for the president. I examine this dynamic through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a highly centralized and politicized agency created at the start of Donald Trump’s second term. Leveraging data on nearly 700,000 federal contracts linked to DOGE contract cuts and 2024 county-level election returns, I show that these cuts were systematically concentrated in counties that provided weaker electoral support for Trump. These patterns hold across contract- and county-level analyses. Together, these findings broaden theories of presidential particularism by showing that presidents may use administrative authority to impose costs on electorally oppositional constituencies. More broadly, I demonstrate how presidents can wield administrative power as a tool of partisan punishment.NPR KUOW 
Seattle Now

Sound Transit needs federal dollars to expand. That might be a problem
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Published Sep 8, 2026, 5:00 AM
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Sound Transit has big plans for the next several decades.

But big plans have big price tags that the agency hopes to split with the federal government.

The problem is, the federal government has stopped approving Capital Investment Grants since Trump took office.

We’ll get into what that means with former Sound Transit CEO and former Federal Transit Administration administrator Peter Rogoff.
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tank is full length per the usual
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Exaaaactlyyyy
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill for this narcissistic political promotion... 😒
Politics
New Trump-focused "Love Me" ad campaign paid for by taxpayers hits airwaves
By Ed O'Keefe, Aaron Navarro
September 24, 2026 / 7:01 PM EDT / CBS News

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A new ad campaign glorifying President Trump is on the air on national cable and national networks including CBS beginning Thursday, and it's being paid for by American taxpayers.
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me and oomf reviewing an artist's discography. I know you can be overwhelmed or underwhelmed. But can you ever just be whelmed??
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another day picking heavy things up and putting them back down
Shirtless mirror gym restroom pic
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Front camera vs back camera 📸
Cat laying on my lap Cat sitting up
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Things happen sometimes...
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Me last night before I started feeling too sleepy to continue reading. And @taystrom.bsky.social is always being sneaky taking these photos...
Reading in bed with cat sitting on my chest
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy hump day 🍑
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Goodbye, summer! It's the fall equinox 🍂 From my fun recent shoot with @lycdoan.bsky.social 📸
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My haul from wine country 🍷
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Congrats to the newlyweds, Nick and Kristina (not pictured) 💍💕
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's pretty here 😍
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When in wine country 🍷
Glass on wooden outdoor table with pizza blurred in background
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Brunch shakshuka 🍳🤤
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Showered 🚿
Mirror pic with me holding towel over my junk I'm so wet care bear
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And look at what you've done...
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Had the distinct privilege of meeting The Right Honourable @liztruss.bsky.social this trip.
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some more of San Francisco
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some of the sights of SFO
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And done. Overall it was a pretty good read 🐦‍⬛
Holding Hollow Kingdom: A Novel
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: the Max Rebo Band will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No worries. I've got methods to stop the worrying any doom scrolling may cause
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sometimes I wish was at peak of mount stupid. It must feel so good to feel so confident about things.
Dunning Kruger Effect graph
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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Political discussions can be tricky...
One time I mentioned [political office holder] and her getting an unreasonable amount of hate to a friend is is not very politically aware, I'll say. Yet he seemed to know enough about her to start going off. And then it's also difficult to address any of that because I'm sure we're going to approach the topic with vastly different understandings of the situation. Most of the convo would just being trying to see what the other knows and if we even define things the same or use similar terminology
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