Kelly McKernan
fine artist & freelance illustrator ✧ adjunct art professor ✧ audhd goblin ✧ advocating for artists ✧ they/them baddie ✧ trans rights are human rights ✧ on a quest to see every color✧ 🚫AI
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- The whiplash between simultaneously trying to remain informed while protecting my energy & mental health has been extremely challenging lately. Please bear with me - I’m behind on emails, updates, projects, and a few orders (everybody gets extras!). 💜🙏🏻✨
- ‼️SOS: call your reps and tell them not to pass the house approved budget reconciliation bill which includes a 10 year moratorium on AI regulation in US states. This is INSANE and if passed, only benefits billionaire tech CEOs and harms the rest of us in unfathomable ways. It’s easy: www.5calls.org
- Keep fighting. Stickers available here: www.kellymckernan.com/shop/no-ai-s...
- I made a drippy pride flag mural in my studio (with an assist from my kiddo) and y’all, I had a BLAST. I would loooove to do more of these! HMU if you’re around Nashville and need your own for your home or business! 🌈 ✨
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- I’ve wanted to work with MtG for years and years. I keep applying, maybe one day!
- Hey Nashville, there’s a vampire ball this Saturday night @ the East Room and I’ll be vending at the Night Market next door at my favorite spooky shop, Hail, from 8-11pm! I’ll be in the taxidermy room pretending all the dead animals are my haunted pets (normal stuff). Don your fangs and hang out!🦇
- I’ve just called my reps. Blackburn took my voicemail but Hagerty’s office had a lovely person take my statement and even commiserate with this message. NGL, I took several days to process what’s happening between this bill & the USCO report and firings. Today, I’m back to fighting. Don’t give up.
- Folks call your Senators now!! A ban on any state laws on GenAi for 10 YEARS is gonna do unthinkable harm! For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste) Need to find your representatives? Here you go: 5calls.org
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- I’m seeing it Sunday. I can’t wait!
- Keep fighting. Stickers available here: www.kellymckernan.com/shop/no-ai-s...
- Friendly reminder that I am down to my last couple boxes of my Hanafuda card decks! If you enjoy unique card games, art nouveau, Japanese culture, and nature themes, don’t miss out. This fully illustrated deck is compatible with over 30 Hanafuda card games! 🌸 www.kellymckernan.com/shop/pre-ord...
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- Thank you, I will try again next year.
- Resin art sale! ✨ If you’ve had your eye on any of these resin layered pieces, now’s the time to claim em! These are one of a kind artworks, each unique & will not be created again. The resin encases these artworks making them perfect bathroom wall additions! Every angle is a different experience.
- Available here and on sale for 3 days only! www.kellymckernan.com/shop?categor...
- 100 minutes of watercolor painting crammed into 60 seconds! Loved painting this face last night.
- A perfect Sunday afternoon spent painting 💕 (happy Mother’s Day to me)
- Is sitting like a frog a hypermobile thing? I catch myself frogging constantly. 🐸
- I’m utterly obsessed with my new purple tinted magnetic frames! They’re 10000% my style.
- I think it’s done?! I had an absolute blast making this. I wanna make more. 😍
- If I forget for a minute that I’m living in a very red state, I really love living in Nashville because these storms are magnificent. This is from my studio window minutes before the sky opened up and hail came flying sideways!
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- When I eventually move away, I’ll miss the storms terribly.
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- It’s so silly bc it really isn’t that hard to understand - or maybe I just think the general population is more intelligent and sensible than it really is…
- Would anyone still go to comic cons if they were focused on creators instead of celebrities?
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- I’m no longer doing ECCC sadly, and I loved being there! REEDPOP shows are increasingly about celeb culture and less about creators. We’re being priced out in favor of the moneymakers.
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- IF superintelligence is developed, it ain’t coming out of generative AI. But Sam wants us all to think the algorithmic magic trick is evidence that we’re SO close to AGI. Scam behavior.
- Alex, you could just admit that you should’ve reached out to the plaintiffs for comment, but you chose not to because that wouldn’t fit the narrative you built.
- My response to certain factual claims in this post and other general comments I've received about the video: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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- I’m not interested in debating, I don’t have the time or energy for that. I made it clear why I’m upset - for being misrepresented and not even contacted for comment.
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- Yes, I read it. He assumed it wouldn’t be a productive conversation, and his assumption was short sighted and likely wrong. The only interview requests that I deny are those not made in good faith, and it sounds like Alex just wasn’t interested in even hearing what I’d say.
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- I didn’t see an email??
- POV: finally thriving, despite it all
- There isn’t a single thought in that head.
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- Ofc!!!
- My response to certain factual claims in this post and other general comments I've received about the video: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
- Hi! Nice to e-meet you Alex. Wish it were under better circumstances. Anyhow let’s address your points! Sorry, this is gonna be a long one ☠️ So for those of you who hate reading this shit in a thread, here’s a google doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Otherwise follow the conversation below:
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- Where did I go wrong trying to make a living from my own artwork???
- Oh is it time to once again to righteously cancel another trans YouTuber while using vague social justice sounding buzz words as a shield? Sorry you’re going through this. Once your profile was raised I was nervous that it was only a matter of time before the “allies” played “burn the trans” again
- Hey, I’m one of the plaintiffs Alex profiled but failed to even contact for comment. This is upsetting. It’s got nothing to do with him being trans. I’m non-binary and am raising a genderqueer child. None of this has to do with anyone’s gender or allyship.
"i didnt reach out to people to make sure i was representing them correctly bc it was too hard :( what if they argued with me :(" be so fucking serious.- My response to certain factual claims in this post and other general comments I've received about the video: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
- Seriously.
- Absolutely baffled whenever I see people litter in real life. Just…seriously? In the year 2025?
- Seriously. I honked at a guy once for throwing a styrofoam cup of ice out of his window onto someone’s lawn, and he actually stopped, got out of his car, and threatened me! Absolutely insane.
- New hair color makes me feel extra magical 💕💜✨
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- Thanks!
- My Taarna variant cover got previewed! I cannot wait to get my hands on a physical copy. 🤩
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- My tiny void, my spicy Squidling, I love you even though you bite me 🫶🏻
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- They’re soooo cute
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- I’m learning this is a black cat thing 😂 so spicy!
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- I’m on the discord, but am really bad at checking it. I’ll reach out to Frank again! 👋
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- Thank you! I had an absolute blast painting this! And I wish! I’d love love love to do a psychedelic surreal dark fantasy version of my own.
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- I’m so happy I finally have a void of my own!
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- They’re mesmerizing!
- Making great progress in this #watercolor piece for the upcoming portrait invitational at Modern Eden Gallery! Painting is my happy place, nothing makes me feel more at peace.
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- A million times this.
- I've spent the last half year investigating the nefarious interests behind the anti-AI Backlash. The results were surprising.
- How do you spend half a year doing “research” and not reach out to any of the artists you’re villainizing here? You literally have ominous music when you introduce Karla. Wtf? Shit journalism my dude. Feel free to donate your ad revenue here: www.ko-fi.com/kellymckernan
- Hi! Nice to e-meet you Alex. Wish it were under better circumstances. Anyhow let’s address your points! Sorry, this is gonna be a long one ☠️ So for those of you who hate reading this shit in a thread, here’s a google doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Otherwise follow the conversation below:
- Bless you Karla. 🫶🏻
