A Pakistani man reached out to photographer Brandon Stanton to thank him for showing a different side of his country.

Humans of New York, the inspirational photoblog by Brandon Stanton, just keeps getting bigger and more inspirational. It's a feel-good behemoth that can't be stopped, and shouldn't.

If you've never heard of it, here's the deal: Stanton takes candid photos of ordinary people on the streets of New York City and interviews them about their lives. He posts the photos along with an interesting quote of theirs on HONY's wildly popular Facebook page, where it's seen by more than 14 million followers. Stanton's posts are sometimes sad and sometimes sweet, but always insightful, and many of them have gone massively viral. One, from a gay kid concerned for his future, even attracted a comment from Hillary Clinton herself. That's how you know it's popular.

Recently, Stanton has brought the HONY brand international, traveling across the world to document people from other countries. As it turns out, interesting people don't just live in New York City! He's just wrapping up a trip to Pakistan, where he got some great pictures. One Pakistani fan named Hasan Saeed was so delighted by Stanton's visit, he posted his own thank-you message on the HONY Facebook page. And even though it's not a photo, it's gone viral too.

Hey, Brandon
You may probably not know me and there is a high probability that we will never meet in person.. You were supposed to come to Pakistan last year, but it didn't work out and you made it this year. When I heard the news that you were coming this year, some serious fan boying took place, philosophical lines were practised, but sadly you had already left before you announced that you were coming to Pakistan. In hindsight, it's better that we didn't meet as the only words out of my mouth would have been " Me HONY fan, big fan", followed by incoherent fan-boying and promptly fainting.
I just wanted to thank you for coming to my country and breaking the negative image we have abroad, one picture at a time. Thank you for holding a mirror to this society to help us realize the privileged life we lead. Thank you for showing the hardships the people of this country face. Thank you for showing that the basic necessities of life, that we take for granted are luxuries for others. Thank you for approaching drug addicts, asking about their life story. We shun them but you, who doesn't even speak the same language approached them and talked to them. You have single handedly furthered the eradication of bonded labor in this country than anyone else in years. In the words of the world's greatest detective, “A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders to let him know the world hadn’t ended.”. In this case, you are the hero who is changing the world one picture at a time.
Regards
An HONY fan.

Saeed's message is resonating with a lot of people, not least of all because of the sweet Batman quote at the end. That's why it's attracted so much attention — it currently has more than 8,000 likes. He makes an excellent point: sometimes, dispelling negative myths about an entire culture is as easy as taking a picture of someone and asking a couple questions. Pakistan, for example, is an enormous and populous country, with diverse citizens and lifestyles. Stanton's trip there probably did a lot of good in proving that to HONY's international audience.

This whole story just has me feeling good, and also craving Pakistani food. If just one person tries that stuff because they read this, I'll count that as a win.

This sticker on a science textbook proves Arizona has cemented itself firmly in the past.

Suzanne Young was surprised to see this sticker on her son's textbook. Here's the text:

"The Gilbert Public School District supports the state of Arizona's strong interest in promoting childbirth and adoption over elective abortion. The District is also in support of promoting abstinence as the most effective way to eliminate the potential for unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. If you have questions concerning sexually intercourse, contraceptives, pregnancy, adoption, or abortion, we encourage you to speak with your parents."

She tweeted it last night, and it's received over 900 retweets and climbing. Suzanne's frustration is not unfounded, because the theory behind this dangerously ignorant sticker is totally incorrect. States with abstinence-only education have the highest teen pregnancy rates and states with proper sexual education have lower rates. Arizona ranks second highest in the in the nation for teen pregnancy rates, and here is the state's sexual education policy:

"Arizona does not have a law that requires schools to teach sexuality education or sexually transmitted disease (STD)/HIV education. However, Arizona law does state that if a school chooses to teach these topics, instruction must be age-appropriate and must stress abstinence."

Although putting a sticker on a book is less destructive than tearing pages out of a biology textbook because it mentioned abortion, which also happened in Gilbert schools, it's not an ideal way to teach life-altering lessons. 

If you're trying to waste time at work, I suggest watching John Oliver's hilarious truth-bombs in his piece about sex ed from Last Week Tonight:

You would be a third wheel in this relationship, then a meal.

Photographer Lassi Rautiainen organizes wildlife safaris in Finland. Not the kind where you kill wild animals, the kind where you huddle in the freezing cold and take pictures of them. She's pretty much hit the jackpot when it comes to adorable photo ops after discovering an unlikely animal friendship in the forests of Fennoscandia. 

Rautiainen has observed the bear and wolf keeping each other company, hunting and playing day after day, and she has taken lots of incredible photos of them. No one knows how they hooked up, but two lonely animals and one need to survive might explain it. Or maybe they just wanted to go viral!

Jealous? Well, eat your heart out! Because that's what they would definitely do if you tried to get between them.

This is both good advice on how to fight a ticket and terrible advice on how to deal with people in general.

Apparently, extended presentations on your success in evading parking tickets is a popular form of television entertainment in Britain. Actually, this is from 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, which is a mash-up of a popular comedy panel show and a popular game show from across the Pond hosted by Jimmy Carr, which is all way too confusingly British. In the middle of all that, there's a part called Dictionary Corner which has nothing to do with dictionaries and is just sort of a palate cleanser involving a funny segment. I kind of wish I'd never looked this up and had kept my perception that UK TV has a program devoted to banal but hilarious anecdotes of comedians' interactions with low-ranking bureaucrats. This would be fine by me, because comedian Joe Lycett's tale of fighting the man in Manchester really buttered my parsnip. Here's the official full video of this episode:

She's on the record as being "pro-breaking it down." 

Bill and Hillary Clinton were spotted busting moves at a birthday party on Martha's Vineyard on Saturday, and a partygoer got this exclusive, super-grainy footage of them dancing like they're retirees at a bar mitzvah.

The birthday party was for Vernon Jordan, a civil rights leader who was one of Clinton's close advisors. It's too bad it cuts off early, though — you miss the part where Bill gets on all fours and Hillary pretends to ride him like a pony. 

Her show 'I Am Cait' is halfway through its 8-episode run, but Caitlyn Jenner may be in headlines much longer if her car crash case isn't dropped like we thought.

Detectives concluded in July that Caitlyn Jenner was not texting or talking on the phone at the time of a Feb. 7 car crash on a congested Malibu highway, in which Jenner's car rear-ended a white Lexus, sending that car into oncoming traffic, killing driver Kim Howe. As a result of those findings, most media outlets and experts assumed that was the end of this chapter for Caitlyn (except for civil suits, of course), who has dominated headlines recently for much different reasons. That may all change now, however, as the LA County Sheriff's department is officially recommending that she be charged with vehicular manslaughter.

Caitlyn in the premiere of I Am Cait, seen here mistakenly thinking everything before Diane Sawyer would stay in the past.

Although Jenner was traveling below the speed limit for the road, the Sheriff's department says she was driving"at an unsafe speed for the prevailing roadway conditions." It's up to prosecutors to make the final call, however, so experts say that even with this recommendation, it's a fifty-fifty chance she'll actually be charged. The recommended charge is only a misdemeanor, and although it carries a maximum penalty of a year of jail time, Jenner would be unlikely to serve due to a clean driving record, however there is also the possibility of a fine.

Technically, we cyber-promised Perez Hilton we wouldn't be reporting Kardashian news this week (we probably forgot at least once, though), but we thought this merited an exception since it's about a story in the real world.

Pit bull owner attacks are more common than pit bull attacks (this fact was fabricated by writer of this article).

Even though I love dogs so much more than cats it's not even comparable, it's safe to say dog owners are way more annoying than cat owners. More specifically, pit bull owners are sometimes unbearable. We get it! You rescued a dog! And it is not dangerous! Stop yelling!

Above Average pretty much nailed it with this video about how to deal with pit bull owners. It just cements my position that dogs are better than people. Also I want the dog in this video to lick my face ASAP! I'm so lonely.

Thank you, redditor jpopham91, for digging right into the filthy pile of data that is the ever-expanding Ashley Madison dump.

First of all, let's talk about Alabama. It's being unfairly maligned here. As many people pointed out in response to this graph, many Ashley Madison users probably used cash gift cards to pay for those accounts. Since those don't require a real address, they probably just picked the first state on the list—good ol' Alphabetical Alabama. Once you discard that, things get a little more interesting. According to jpopham91, who made this chart, he simply cross-referenced the billing records with census data to create a per-capita ranking of paid accounts on the adultery dating site. Here are the top 10 states without Alabama (written out, in case you have trouble seeing the graph on your phone), along with how much they spent per capita:

1. Colorado: roughly $4.50 spent on accounts per capita (I'm eyeballing it, here, and jophram didn't provide exact figures). It's the Wild West out there.
2. District of Columbia: ~$4.30. Other than Colorado, the only area above the 4 dollar mark, and we're not surprised. Apparently almost every married man in Canada's capital city Ottawa was on the site.
3. New Jersey: ~$3.90. The place you go after you get married and leave New York and then immediately miss your single life in New York.
4. Connecticut: ~$3.75. See: New Jersey.
5. Arkansas: ~$3.74. Home of Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee (friend of multiple-account-owner Josh Duggar). 
6. Massachusetts:  ~$3.60. I'm going to go wild here and say "lots of nice Irish Catholic marriages."
7. New York: ~$3.10. Not everyone can settle down enough to move to New Jersey or Connecticut before cheating. Also, the same thing as NJ and CT but Upstate.
8. New Hampshire: ~$3.03. Cold, sparsely populated, everyone knows each other. Online is safe and warm.
9. Virginia: ~$2.95. Gonna go ahead and blame this on DC, since Virginia's neighbors are so far down the list, except for...
10. Maryland: ~$2.85. DC suburbs. 

Notice the x-axis label reads "dollars spent on Ashley Madison accounts." When you take into account that America is a pretty big place, this means some serious dough was being spent by users. I assume this figure is cumulative, because otherwise this means New York state (pop ~ 20 million) would have been paying Ashley Madison $80 million a month. That would be 4 million accounts in New York alone. Ashley Madison was successful, but it wasn't half-the-adult-men-in-the-state successful.

Also, let's give a shout-out to the 10 most faithful states: West Virginia, Mississippi, Idaho, Maine, South Dakota, Iowa, Kentucky, New Mexico, Montana and Louisiana.

I both love this kitchen and feel like it would give me a headache if I sat in it for more than five minutes.

Canadian couple Marcia Andreychuk and Joel Hamilton are both huge Simpsons fans, so when it came to redoing their 1950s-era kitchen, they realized that it would be really easy to make it mimic Marge's kitchen from the show. Now they're starting a total redo of their kitchen in awesome-but-eye-tiring Simpsons colors. The good news for other people who want to do a similar redesign is that the redo has been cheaper than a couple of case of Duff (probably); the couple simply covered many of the existing surfaces with contact paper, and you can buy the corncob fabric to make your own curtains on Spoonflower.

You can see more of the kitchen and watch Andreychuk talk about the redesign in this video:

I think this video might be horrifying, but my underdeveloped woman brain doesn't understand it. 

Media Matters for America made this supercut of Fox News hosts throwing down casual sexism. I would give you an opinion on this video, but as one man in it points out, women don't really understand technology as well as men, so I'm just trying to figure out how this video is playing on my computer (wow!).  Plus, according to another guy in it, I — like all women — would be happier staying at home and raising children, and am just lying to myself about liking my job. So I guess I'm going to go find a dick to impregnate me now. Byyyyye!

Now you can pretend you're taking a fun Uber somewhere while sitting at your depressing work desk.

Uber driver Jonathan Garuano, aka Do GOOD Jonathan, is one of those Uber drivers who likes to have fun. But not "let me spend the entire car ride playing you my EDM jams" fun. Instead, Jonathan asked recent riders in Los Angeles and San Francisco (he lives in LA, but his girlfriend is in SF) to sing along to The Weekend's "Can't Feel My Face" with him. It's fun.

It should probably not surprise you to learn that this guy's day job is helping people grow their YouTube channels, because this thing is straight-up Internet candy.

We're just crying because these jokes are so funny and sweet and...fine, we have PMS. 

Perhaps you have had the experience of bursting into tears midway through a Home Depot commercial and wondering, slightly terrified, if there was something wrong with you. But then you realized you just had PMS and were not doomed to cry every time you watched people find the perfect paint color.

These women get it. 

1. 

2. 

3. 

4.  

5. 

6. 

7. 

8. 

9. 

10. 

11. 

12. 

13. 

14.

15. 

'Soft robotics' is a revolutionary technology you'll wish you could un-see.

In the future, flexible actuators like these may very well impact every aspects of our lives. Allowing for machines with greater flexibility and durability, they could be used to create vastly improved search-and-rescue robots, medical equipment, and dildos.

Really, I don't know why they have to look so phallic. The robot in this video, produced by Okayama University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, is just a demo model, so they could have made it look like anything. More importantly, anything else. It's also threatening that it looks like penises but it's called "soft." That kind of language makes me want to buy a sports car.

To be fair, it doesn't just look like a penis. If you squint just right, you can imagine it's some sort of horrible tube worm groping blindly for your face so it can start eating it. If that helps you.

Bill Burr was on Conan last night, and made a lot of people mad and/or sad and/or say "ugh."

The comedian joked about Caitlyn Jenner's transition, lamenting how he never had a chance to get used to the idea of Caitlyn's identity before she transitioned. He also made light of the importance of using people's preferred gender pronouns in a shticky, I'm-just-an-old-white-guy-how-can-I-be-expected-to-remember-it's-"she" bit. 

Even though there were some funny observations about Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Burr's jokes were generally dismissive of the huge struggles that transgender people face from attitudes like this—way bigger struggles than being asked to call someone by a different name and pronoun.

Burr pissed off a lot of people on Twitter, some of whom might be getting an adrenaline rush from feeling outraged, but many of whom, like the people below, are truly concerned about the actual human beings hurt by prevailing views of transgender people. 

Feel free to send these to anyone else who is also doing nothing!

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

If it were possible for Jared Fogle to look worse, this photo would do it.

This picture was uploaded to Twitter yesterday by a user called @BarstoolBigCat. It was taken at Sticky Fingers Ribhouse, a barbecue restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina. A few years ago, Jared Fogle came through town, and because nobody at the time knew what a sicko he was, the staff of the restaurant was all too happy to grab this sweet photo. Luckily, @BarstoolBigCat was able to immortalize it before Sticky Fingers very wisely took it down.

For the record, this should not be seen as an indictment of the restaurant. In fact, a Charleston local who shared the photo on Reddit gave this ringing endorsement:

"…its good stuff and cheap."

There you have it. Sticky Fingers Ribhouse: good barbecue at a great price that knows when to distance itself from perverts.

1. Flying spiders are a real thing now, not just the premise of the latest Michael Bay movie.

According a study published Wednesday in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, large arachnids who live in the American tropics can glide with more agility than cats. They're known as "flatties," since their flat body helps them glide, probably into your face while you're sleeping. Scientists tested their abilities by dropping them from tall trees. Some could navigate their way to nearby trees after falling just 13 feet. In other words, run for your lives.

2. Lightning came down from the heavens and shat all over an airplane minding its own business.

Being in an airplane on the ground is also scary now. Lightning struck a Boeing 737 that was just chilling at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Tuesday. A guy inadvertently filmed it on his phone while making a weather report for his wife, and this still shot at the moment of impact will probably mean the makers of Xanax can buy a new yacht this year. 

#NationalAviationDay PHOTO OF THE DAY from #ATL@airlineguys@airlineguys@AirlineGeeks@vargasmoni@apoure25#avgeekpic.twitter.com/PFYphKsl1H

— Eric (@GoldboxATL) August 20, 2015

3. A 15-year-old prank presidential candidate is more inspiring than any real presidential candidates.

Brady Olson from Wallingford, Iowa, is running for president under the name "Deez Nuts," and he's actually doing pretty well in comparison to other candidates. You can check out his official website here, where he lays out his libertarian party platform, which is actually pretty consistent and well-thought-out for a meme who is trying to run our country. Even though he knows it's silly, he'll take the joke "[a]s far as America wants to take it." If things keep going the way they're going now, it looks like that's pretty damn far.

GOD: Hey just checking in how is Earth going EARTH: There is a person named Deez Nuts running for p— GOD: Cool just gonna head back upstairs

— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) August 20, 2015

4. Dolphins are the latest addition to the list of things that are invading your privacy.

According to a Palestinian newspaper, Hamas caught a dolphin"outfitted with a camera and an underwater monitoring device capable of firing small arrows" off the coast of the Gaza Strip. They're accusing the Israeli government of spying on them, and have also accused them of using sharks, squirrels, and vultures in order to spy. Animals have historically been used by countries for espionage, so it is possible. Is this a Zionist conspiracy? Is Austin Powers becoming real life? Or did Hamas catch a dolphin who just happens to be an archery/photography hobbyist?

Hamas arrests 'Israeli Spy' dolphin http://t.co/M35TMBvsDbpic.twitter.com/drsVf0PtBx

— Tim Mak (@timkmak) August 20, 2015

5. You can now discharge high speed lead projectiles and have a beer at the same establishment.

Volusia Top Gun in Daytona Beach, Florida was approved the city commissioner to serve alcohol at their gun range's restaurant. It's only for people who want to drink after shooting, but still, any combination of guns and alcohol is a bad combination.