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Oof these close ups r nasty, have the full page 📄

Mini comics aren’t my strong suit so making this makes me feel accomplished 😛

You know who else always had a professional life conveniently wrapped in mystery?

Anthony G. McGill

And perhaps some of you have been around long enough to remember how fascinatingly flexible his professional biography used to be.

In the beginning, we had the rather generic “works in finance.” Then, somewhere along the way, the story became considerably more interesting. Anthony was apparently the owner of a bar in London. Or perhaps two bars, depending on which version happened to be circulating at the time.

And eventually, after a few adjustments and upgrades, we arrived at the title that seemed to stick, music producer.

Quite the professional journey, when you think about it.

The interesting part, of course, was never simply what Anthony supposedly did for a living. It was watching his professional story become a little more polished and impressive as the years went by, while actual details remained remarkably scarce.

A vague job becomes a business. A business becomes multiple businesses. And eventually, we land on something suitably glamorous for the narrative.

Until one version is repeated often enough that everyone simply starts treating it as established fact.

Perhaps that’s why watching another mysterious professional biography being slowly assembled feels so familiar.

Some of us have been here long enough to recognize the process.

And...

Because the MPC Gala and the Commonwealth Games are just around the corner, Madam Mao had to somehow chime in, with a seemingly personal and heartfelt message to her Mommie fans.

I will post only the text and the reference of the post. I am not giving her more air than necessary:

How wise. How compassionate. How deep.

If only that was personal. Because this is what is implied when someone says things like - 'a little thought that's been sitting with me'. Isn't it?

Alas, it is not. The core message of this post comes from two different sources she combined, adding her two-pence animal behavior observations.

Exhibit One:

[Source: Youth Mental Health Canada's Facebook page - posted July 15th, 2024]

Exhibit Two:

[Source: gaeilgeoirguides' IG account - posted November 2, 2025]

Plagiarism has many faces. It can be a straight copy/paste or a more or less refined adaptation of an idea. Acknowledging someone else's work as inspiration or using the appropriate quoting brackets hasn't killed anyone - oh, well, perhaps a misplaced ego, such as Madam Mao's. It is the basic, courteous and urbane thing to do. Always and irrespective of anything else.

Does she think we are such imbeciles, unable to tell? Or is this second nature to her?

Pádraig Ó Tuama, the mysterious P.O. Tuama identified by the Canadian Facebook page, is a well known Irish poet - who incidentally hails from Cork -, a theologian, a gay activist, a conflict mediator and a Yale Divinity School faculty member. He deserved to be acknowledged both by Madam Mao and the other influencer I posted above. An influencer who failed to do so, but ended up being plagiarized by our Horse Whisperer Extraordinaire - karma being, as often, a retributive bitch.

There is no way in hell this woman would have ever been, even remotely, involved into anything related to research, at an academic level.

I have no words.