what an absolute cluster bungle

passing like a kidney stone

that would be great thanks

34 candidates are standing in this unnecessary waste of tax payer's money election. 34! That's a new record for UK elections.

Our hero Count Binface takes on the dastardly Farage on 13th Aug 2026, but he faces competition from 32 other people vying to become MP for Clacton.

Among these candidates are 3 Monster Raving Loonies™ as well as people from across the country and even the wider world?! There's even someone whose listed address is Australia; truly a global important election.

Doing a quick tally, there's only 6 local people standing (maybe 8 if you're willing to allow people just slightly outside the council area). The rest are scattered across the UK, from Glasgow to Dorset, yet none of the other major political parties (Labour, Tories, Lib Dems, Greens) are fielding a candidate.

They know this is a sham election called by Farage to avoid an investigation into his undeclared finances. Although it's highly like he gets reelected, Count Binface stands a good chance of taking all the left leaning and protest votes, and would give him his best ever finish in a UK election. Even the current PM and LotO have thrown their support for Count Binface.

Do the right thing Clacton. Make your vote COUNT

Your brain is an incredibly energy-intensive organ. It makes up approximately 2% of your total body mass, but at rest it's using 22% of your total energy intake. The only thing that uses the same percentage of energy is all of your skeletal muscle (which is about 40% of your total body mass), with the liver (about 2.6% of your total mass) close behind at 21% (Aragon et al, 2017).

And that's how much energy it's using at rest.

That's the baseline.

So if you're doing lots of intellectual labour, your brain - which already has disproportionately huge energy demand - is going to use even more energy to keep up with the work. That's why you feel so wiped/drained/like you're out of spell slots after high intellectual demand - because your brain is an organ, and you've just done a lot of high-energy work with a high-energy organ.