Jacob White

@jacobwhite.bsky.social

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Research Scientist working at the intersection of remote sensing, sustainability, agriculture, and climate change. Freelance data scientist / consultant. Ex-Astrophysicist, PhD, snowboarder, surfer, hiker, improv, #Vancouver, vegan, he/him

Balck and white photo of a young woman and the text says "TIL that Abraham Lincoln did not grow a beard until an 11 year old girl suggested it a few weeks before the 1860 presidential election"
a poorly drawn map of canada from chatgpt with incorrectly named cities and provinces
A fully body shot of an okapis. It has zebra stripped legs, a red deer like body/face, and giraffe like ears and horns. It is also weirdly muscular.
Screenshot of a 365 day streak on Duolingo
A small dog that has had its hair dyed to look like a tiger
a run down, dirty, minimal gym with a few weight machines
A beaver with clearly photoshopped moose antlers
A tweet from JD Vance that says "spare me the sob story about how Canada is our best friend. I love Canada and have many Canadian friends. But is the government meeting their NATO target for military spending? Are they stopping the flow of drugs into our country? I'm sick of being taken advantage of"
A screaming beaver riding a screaming Canada goose. It is wearing a maple leaf bra and under a crown. A banner at the bottom says Canada
A jokey breakdown of all my bluesky content
Marv and Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone
A bedroom oom with 100s of dolls
A painting by Julius Caesar Ibbetson in 1817 of the sport of bull-baiting. A bull is in the centre and a dog is seen upside down in the air. They are surrounded by a crowd of people watching.
Marco Rubio sitting a cartoonishly large chair
A blue mixed drink in a cocktail glass
Kemen from Rings of Power
Screenshot from the TV show The Good Place that reads "Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad PLace because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide"
Mark Robinson and Donald Trump on a campaign stage
Screenshot from Duolingo showing the translation for "Why is he in our bed?"
Next-gen ChatGPT will have PhD level intelligence, will launch in a year and a half: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati
A black cat laying on his back in someone's lap with his tongue out and staring up at the camera
The Vancouver Canucks mascot, an orca, wearing a hockey jersey and posing on one knee
The jumbotron inside Rogers arena for a Canucks vs Oilers playoff game
The Aurora borealis over downtown Vancouver.
A brown dog sitting on top of a red fire hydrant under a bridge
A job posting for an ML engineer that has a qualification listed as "Ideally, you are the kind of ML person who feels Fremdschämen when another ML person makes a rookie mistake while applying ML to some other field."
Pam fro the TV show The Office with the caption "they're the same picture".
a black cat with his ears back looking out the window at a seagull staring directly at him
Scuba Steve from the Adam Sandler movie "Big Daddy". He is wearing a red and yellow wetsuit with flippers, air tanks, yellow dish gloves, goggles, and a beanie while talking to a young boy.
Tobias from the TV show Arrested Development standing up and telling a crowd "There are dozens of us, Dozens!" In reference to his character being a never nude
2 very large snow men, about 7 ft tall each. In the background is a calm bay and the Vancouver skyline
a screenshot of a weather forecast for Vancouver, BC that says "Active Watch: Waterspout Watch"
Two surfers on wetsuits and Santa hats posing with blue longboards
A fake Spotify wrapped screenshot that says "In 2023 you applied to 224 jobs. You were rejected by every single one."
A Canadian gray jay perched on someone's fingertips with a dramatic background of mountains and ocean in British Columbia
2 pie charts showing greenhouse gas emissions for a "high emitting individual" and "global sectors".
Sacha Baron Cohen sitting on Helena Bonham Carter's dressed in French 1800s style clothes
A white sink in a public restroom with a large bright green praying mantis on the wall just above it
A view from the top of a mountain with rolling hills and mountains in the distance. Mt. Fuji is faintly visible in the center
A piece of puffer fish nigiri on a small plate, looks like raw white fish with green onions on top
A tray full of pretzels on a cooling rack
A black cat laying down and yawning (looks like he's screaming) with some Japanese Yen on the ground in front of him
A large black cat stretched out and laying on his side with the sun shining on his belly. The light from the sun makes his belly look red
Billy Idol taking his shirt off with a caption reading "it's a nice day for a light sweater, it's a nice day for a cardigan"
Canadian rocky mountains and a bright blue glacial lake
An old rusty bulldozer in the middle of a forest. Looks like it's been there for decades
Mountains in the distance across a flat bay that are mostly obscured by stratified yellowish/reddish haze from wildfire smoke
Three consecutive mountain peaks with lots of smoke making them increasingly difficult to see
A marmot carrying it's baby in her mouth down a narrow hiking trail with tall grass and some wildflowers on either side
A guy in a full body wetsuit carrying a surfboard on an overcast day walking into the ocean in Monterey California
Purple starfish on a rocky shoreline with mountains in the distance
A stock photo of shot glasses filled with tequila. They have salted ribs and there are multiple lime wedges around