I’m a couple episodes in and feel comfortable saying this is an excellent podcast!

Small victory after 2 months of fighting. Also as I was doing rounds, it appears that CivitAI finally took down the LoRA producing images in "the style of Michael Whelan". That one was took years, but it looks like my complaint through the webhost finally got it done.

Sheesh! That's a lot of dragons for tomorrow. Every. Single. Cover. 🐉👊

If tone could kill, there'd be bodies littering Bluesky over the Graham Platner discourse right now. 😱🍿

Small progress on copyright issues today. AdobeStock removed 8 listings. 1 Etsy listing came down. I've been giving some thought on how to attack this. I submitted a complaint through a registrar on the biggest commercial abuse we're dealing with. We'll see if I can get a domain revoked.

My mother, the inimitable Jane Yolen passed away this morning after a blessingly short fight with Alzheimer’s. She did not suffer, and went peacefully into the ether which, I am certain for her, will be filled with words of the most exquisite beauty and meaning.

I'm still on the fence about posting on Michael's Instagram. The algorithm seems to punish daily frequency even without links. Our newsletter post there on Sunday led to a mammoth 67 likes and was seen 4K times. We have 90K followers. 1/2

Renting again after 8 years has been an adventure. Every single place I looked at had breed restrictions, most undisclosed until asked. One complex asked for Lola's records and insisted on testing her. Um no, you aren't testing my dog FFS. That's insane. 1/2

These are stickers I designed to protest AI in the arts, and when you buy them, you’re supporting a single non-binary parent to a genderfluid kiddo in need of funds to move out of Tennessee in 6 weeks. Every little bit helps. 🙏🏻 www.kellymckernan.com/shop/no-ai-s...

And because I've seen the comparison: This is not an H.P. Lovecraft situation of "separate the art from the artist." Lovecraft is a century dead. He's not alive right now, trying to suppress records of his yacht visiting Epstein Island and swearing to make the lives of millions of ppl unlivable.

Yesterday I spent the day waiting to sign the mediated settlement agreement that would wrap up a painful separation and "no contest" divorce that has lasted 3+ years. That inexplicably didn't happened because the mediator never confirmed the time/date over the weekend... 😑

No ECCC for me this weekend! The costs to vend have become insurmountable, unfortunately. Your support would still be SO appreciated though! 💜 www.kellymckernan.com/shop

There's a couple @michaelwhelan.bsky.social preliminaries at auction on Heritage that I'm following with the intention of writing about soon. 1/3 comics.ha.com/c/search/res...

Happy we have officially announced this thing I've been working on for ten freakin' years. Expect to hear more from me about it over the next little while. Meanwhile, here are details: www.superherohype.com/comics/65227...

Kavanaugh boofed the Constitution on this one.

The Jeff Buckley documentary on HBO directed by Amy Berg is soooo good. Made me fall in love with Grace all over again…and lament how close we came to his getting a follow up. www.imdb.com/title/tt3496...

Lola got some Xmas PJs from her fairy dog mother, so we had a fashion show today.

We have a new vendor for Michael Whelan playmats and mousepads! We’ll be adding those to our shop and making an announcement about it soon.

Books With Pictures is in the clear! $47k of a $42k goal!!! If you can afford it, it's still important to donate, though — to keep the wolf from the door for a while more!

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

Not sure where the cover paintings will finish at Live auction, but bids on Heritage are fascinating. That’s a record already for the Asimov concept.

I see this little argument about Wonder Woman being brunette… Reminder! Wonder Woman is within all of us, and sometimes, she has blonde hair like Sabrina Carpenter! 💫

Found on the white board of a library collab room last week.

This Texas law went into effect Sept 1 and it was less than a month before our familiy’s first experience with bullying in a “no place for hate” school. The target of bullying was moved to another class. www.advocate.com/politics/tex...

Just murdering people to distract from the Epstein files at this point.

Was looking for copies of Tanith Lee’s Flat Earth novels, and oh boy are those early DAW editions priced high. 🤯

There's a notable SFF auction that opens at Heritage in a few weeks that includes a pair of Michael's cover paintings for Poul Anderson. ICYMI, you can view the Barry Lamka collection here: fineart.ha.com/c/search/res...

Unless they’re in a boat? Unless they are driving their kids to school? Unless you’ve deported or extrajudicially rendered them to a place they’ve told you/the State Department has told you they will be assassinated?

WTF. This guy is the bias adviser? Was Alex Jones not available?

So: Fascism is bad The First Amendment is good Genocide is an actual fucking crime And also: It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

The gaslighting surrounding this man’s “civility” flies in the face of what he said in public. There are so many clear examples of what he stood for.

This dog goes down deep…under the cushions.

Buh-bye. You know why.

The hagiography underway with Charlie Kirk is as baffling as it is infuriating. He was openly a bigot. Calling him a "civil" debater is an insult to the communities he openly disparaged.

Still working on the art preview for the release tomorrow. And by "working on" I mean that I still haven't seen the art! 😂

First art share on Michael's account...I had a feeling I wasn't going to get much work done today. 😂

Overdue pupdate…Lola is obsessed with garbage trucks. And this tiny lizard that hangs around our cans.

Back from visiting family and hopefully will be posting on a more regular schedule. Two weeks on Pacific Time left me oddly out of sync. Lola was a good traveler tho.

Could be historic if they throw ICE into the Boston Harbor…

It took a week to see the orthopedist and get fitted for the removable cast. 12 days later, the bruising has faded on the side of my wrist but is still bad on the inside. Still icing it. Still having hard time finding a comfortable position sleeping with it elevated.

I’m on Pacific Time for the next month so the posting schedule is going to be in flux until I settle in. Traveling with dog, have broken wrist, yada yada.

Additional pupdate adding to the newsletter...webmaster down! Lola upended me at the park yesterday and sent me sprawling. I fractured my left radius and probably my wrist. Have to get a CT to confirm that tomorrow. Fortunately I'm not in pain and Lola is ok.

Why didn't you tell me about this, @jamesgunn.bsky.social?!

The creek was dry when I rescued Lola two weeks ago. Glad I got her when I did. The second photo was after the rain and flooding we had here.

Overtures are being made. No pics of the face-to-face since I had to be attending Lola, but she was submissive with Piper. Tiny cat was hissing and swiping when Lola got too close, but good girl is doing her part. She walked up to Pipes with tail wagging this evening.

“I don’t tell you how to pick up my poops. You dont tell me how to hold a stick, poop handler.” - Lola the insult comic dog (apologies to Robert Smigel).

Rescued a pup that I’ve been seeing during my daily walks at the park. No chip to scan when I reported her found. Likely dumped at the park. Her name is Lola (like the song). She wouldn’t let me pet her yesterday morning. It’s been all love since she got in the car.

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Seth Rollins trolls 🧀 to perfection!