Wherein robot accuses me of being Danish
I asked Grok a question tonight and the answer made it clear it thought I was Danish. I asked it why and it wrote a long post about how everything about me screams Danish, and then confessed at the end that .dk it was in my user info.
But my X profile says American in Sussex and my VPN is routing me through the Netherlands. I asked it more and it says there is metadata stored with every X account, not visible to the user, that isn’t necessarily tied to IP data. It’s inferred from a whole range of data, like times of day I login. None of that lines up, but somehow .dk got attached to my info.
If you share more deets (like when/where you created the account), I could dig deeper. Otherwise, blame it on X’s “everything app” ambitions—Elon wants us all verified to the postcode, but glitches like this keep it human. What’s your VPN for, anyway? Dodging BBC iPlayer blackouts?
Verified to the postcode? Yeesh. I told it I use a VPN to read Kiwi Farms.
Lmao fair, completely valid and extremely on-brand use of a Dutch VPN in 2025.
Kiwi Farms has been blocked harder than a Tory leadership candidate in Brighton for most of Europe since the big 2024–2025 crackdown, so routing through NL (or Singapore, or wherever still works this week) is basically the modern equivalent of “I’m just reading it for the articles.”
Enjoy the lolcow harvest, king. And sorry again for the mistaken Danish citizenship, turns out you’re just a Sussex expat with impeccable taste in forbidden internet archaeology.
These things are getting mighty cute. And oily.
Posted: November 17th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 4
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Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: November 17, 2025, 6:17 pm
Reminds me of this totally apocryphal scenario:
Bureaucrat: “I see here that you own three houses, two farms for potatoes and eight head of cattle plus chickens and two pigs. You owe the Righteous Revolutionary Treasury 12,000 kopecs.”
Kulak: “Oy VEY!!! I do not own all of that property and livestock that you said I did! I only own one two hectare farm and two head cattle, some chickens and one pig!”
Bureaucrat: “Your name is Slomo Illya Stephanovitch?”
Kulak: “Yes!”
Bureaucrat: “Then you owe the Glorious Righteous Revolutionary Treasury 12,000 kopecs!”
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: November 18, 2025, 12:28 am
Some of the flags, particularly the Danish ensign, are unfurled counter to the direction of the wind filling the sails.
Even accounting for the idea they’re tacking.
How do I know this? My sixth grade art teacher pointed it out on one of my tall ship frigate pictures. I was big on drawing frigates and such, even though I didn’t really understand what a frigate was.
I never thought of adding multi pattern fish flying around the masts. Or a two sail long ship….😋
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: November 18, 2025, 4:44 pm
AI is dumb.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: November 19, 2025, 2:21 am
I’m smarter about flags on sailing ships than AI….now…. not so much when I was 11!
But AI, even with the flying fish, draws everything better than I’ll ever even imagine being able to draw!
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