RIP Anthony Stewart Head, who played Rupert Giles on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and Rupert Mannion, the villainous ex-husband of Hannah Waddingham’s character Rebecca, in “Ted Lasso.”

Head said that his rise to global fame taught him “not to get caught up in the hype. [Co-stars] Alyson Hannigan and Sarah Michelle Gellar would talk about magazine covers, and I’d think: where’s mine? They were competing, but ultimately it’s a game that only lasts so long. It’s better to just get on with the job.”

Newsletter stickage

If you subscribe to this blog as a newsletter, you received two updates Sunday evening and nothing Saturday or Sunday morning. Or something like that; reading a calendar is hard. What happened is that the newsletters got stuck in the pipes and the support team at Micro.blog had to go down there with chainsaws and dynamite and get them unstuck. And then I had to give the mechanism a kick to get it started again. Metaphorically speaking. Anyway, newsletter production should continue as normal.

My Bluesky timeline is all politics, all the time. Is that a representative picture of Bluesky?