Draw from Sequence of 'My Man' Posts by Kevin Kruse

Starting on the afternoon of July 17, 2026, Kevin Kruse fired off an astonishing array of 'BlueSky' replies to an initial post of his featuring a certain government figure: < https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cnpe7qvcyjrhm6w7w7e4atur/post/3mqum4mxsuk2g>. This lasted a week and generated nearly seven hundred posts. A second wave started on August 12, 2026, with this post: < https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mstvbjpagc2a>. A third wave started on August 17, 2026, with < https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mtcpiw7gi22j>. A fourth wave started on August 27, 2026, with < https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mu3pugs2yk2f>. A fifth wave ran on August 30, 2026, beginning with < https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mudbzy5ksk25>. A sixth wave started September 4, 2026, with < https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3muparqtdkk2w>. A seventh wave started September 12, 2026, with < https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mvdol6xu5k2s>. An eighth wave started September 16, 2026, with < https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mvnmq23nw22y>. A ninth wave started October 1, 2026 with < https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mwtx2jztkk2g>. A tenth wave started October 4, 2026, with < https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mx333hlmdc2o>. All of the over seventeen hundred posts from these series start with 'My man ...' and make for excellent input to a 'fortunes'-like package. So this small package obliges and offers a random draw each time its myman() function is called. The overall package structure follows package 'fortunes', and 'atrrr' was used to (bulk-)retrieve posts. Neither package is required to run this package to display random selections.

myman: Sequence of posts by Kevin Kruse starting with 'My man ...'

Motivation

Starting on the afternoon of July 17, 2026, and lasting for one initial week, Kevin Kruse fired off an astonishing array of over six hundred ninety eight BlueSky replies to an initial post of his featuring a certain government figure. On August 12, 2026, a second wave started with this post aiming at another government figure. (There were also two stray posts from the interim period.) This was followed on August 17, 2026, with another series starting with this post. A fourth wave started on August 27, 2026, with this post. A fifth wave started on August 30, 2026, with this post. A sixth wave started on September 4, 2026 with this post. A seventh wave started on September 12, 2026, with this post. An eighth wave started Septemer 16, 2026, with this post. A ninth wave started October 1, 2026, with this post. A tenth wave started October 9, 2026, with this post. The total now stands at one thousand nine hundred eighty four posts.

All posts start with "My man ..." and make for excellent input to a fortunes-like package. So this small package obliges and offers a random draw each time its myman() function is called. The overall package structure follows package fortunes, and atrrr was used to (bulk-)retrieve posts. Neither package is required to run this package to display random selections.

Example

> library(myman)                       # load the package
> example(myman)

myman> set.seed(123)

myman> myman(target="Miller")    # random draw against first target
My man looks like he carries a flask filled with ether.
	 -- about Stephen Miller on 2026-07-22


myman> myman("maitre")           # all posts mentioning a "maitre'd"
My man looks like he's inquiring with the maitre'd about the house curly fries.
	 -- about Howard Lutnick on 2026-08-28

My man looks like a maitre'd who deeply doubts you have a reservation.
	 -- about Scott Bessent on 2026-08-31

My man looks like he's asked the maitre'd to remove a party of four he finds
visually unpleasant.
	 -- about Scott Bessent on 2026-08-31

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Package Status

Complete and functional, no dependencies, passes checks.

Installation

The package is on CRAN so the standard installation via

> install.packages("myman")

will work. It can also be installed from GitHub using the remotes package via the command

> remotes::install_github("eddelbuettel/myman")

Acknowledgements

The structure of the fortunes package has long served as an excellent template (see for example package gaussfacts for another application), and package atrrr was key in retrieving the posts.

See Also

There is also a Python variant on PyPI.

Author

Dirk Eddelbuettel

License

GPL (>= 2)