Today’s edition of Teh Daily Sloth.

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How young Saudi women succeed in subverting the rules they are made to live by. From the New York Times:
At Prince Sultan University, where Atheer Jassem al-Othman, 18, is a first-year law student, a pair of second-year students recently spent a mid-morning break between classes showing off photographs of themselves dressed as boys.
In the pictures, [...]

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“As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from desiccation” - Humphrey Lyttleton

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Here’s a quote from a story in today’s Independent talking about the problems experienced by satirists in Putin’s Russia. It’s an interesting read - and one sentence in particular stood out.

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