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Xinran Hu 胡欣然 🐀👓
@xinranhu.bsky.social
Economics PhD candidate at University of Melbourne
Magical girl reject & local feral rat
All bad takes are out of my own stupidity
ENG/中文
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https://xinranhu.com/
Really wanted to capitalize this typo to go by any pronouns now, but also excessively guilty of the thought as I definitely still look female
March 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
here you go
January 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
O to be a seagull triumphing over a blob that doesn’t fit in your beak
(Aka. Hands, the best mammalian invention)
January 3, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Things I learned in #Stata - 2024 Supercut: tinyurl.com/mrye5ts6

Hopefully people will find them useful!
#EconSky
December 31, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Uh, well, fun fact of the day:
I made a presentation about one of Dali's paintings during my second year undergrad and then entered a 10-year amnesia (?)

Well I guess the actual funny thing I wanted to show is this random paper in a pile of "references" called "Why is there no Jewish Surrealism"
December 18, 2024 at 9:45 AM
I guess some people just can’t read
December 9, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Weirdness is in the eyes of the beholder
December 9, 2024 at 12:42 AM
大耗子初试书籍装订
December 8, 2024 at 6:36 AM
Seriously. Am I a female (biological sex) human being (species)? Unambiguously yes.
Am I a woman? Ughhhhhh friend I genuinely don’t know I don’t think some people in my life liked the idea. But to make things simpler I’ll pretend so……
December 7, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Some days I identify as this Timorese doggo
December 5, 2024 at 3:50 AM
Oh I got a notification...
Oh a new follower...

GANGLE FROM THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS?
Seriously what are you doing here my girl, I thought people follow me for weird economics/China shit.
December 4, 2024 at 4:06 AM
Do you know that #Qualtrics can support longitudinal surveys? Well, now you know!

I wrote a blog post (tinyurl.com/mwyekdsc) summarizing this niche knowledge I picked up during fieldwork.

You can also find screenshots below👇in case my site goes down bc I forgot to renew my VPS.

#EconSky
November 30, 2024 at 2:29 PM
They are free and happy and will soon join the PhD cohort as emotional support stuffed animals
November 29, 2024 at 12:05 PM
My rats came in McDonald’s Happy Meal toy bags
November 29, 2024 at 7:57 AM
That Chinese version had Zera saying “That guy would have feelings towards a mere toy!”, which is… Just so very art because it echoes back to the fact that all tragedy stemmed Zera’s deeply rooted undeservedness, his narcissism, and the fact that he took advantage of a… well, slightly off gay boy
November 28, 2024 at 12:43 PM
And everyone’s favorite part: When your most-loved sentence in the entire story is an artefact of low-quality Japanese-to-Chinese translation in the pirated version you read online 10 years ago
November 28, 2024 at 12:37 PM
So the back cover mentions that this is “Lord of the Flies for the new century”, which I found surprising.
Being the uncivilized™️ person as I am, I clearly had not read the novel back when I still have the time and brains for recreative reading. But there is indeed some intriguing similarities…
November 28, 2024 at 12:26 PM
New hyperfixation fuel just dropped!
I cannot understand the English version cover though… C’mon just do a photoshop of the original Japanese cover like what the French did

(Rant incoming in the comments section)
November 28, 2024 at 12:23 PM
洋人的互联网文化怎么和老中的差了这么多,我觉得“你说的东西我想不想看”比“你是谁”重要太多了
November 20, 2024 at 10:41 PM
And here’s a list of general stuff depending on if my hyperfixation prevails.

They might show up next week, or in three years, as you can tell by the sheer volume:

(I guess this very loosely count as #promosky ?)
November 20, 2024 at 1:26 AM
The most random Stata trick I know is that if you press Ctrl, your cursor can be placed at multiple locations, allowing you to type/delete/copy/paste multiple lines of code at the same time......
November 18, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Getting to know me: A starter Pack

(Just so you know I have a physical copy of this next to my desk)
November 15, 2024 at 4:32 AM