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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev

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The Dyad Payne. Studying for a PhD at UoN Comp Sci, writing IE, Teryte and more (@writing.aksan.dev), and navigating a complex life. (They/Them)

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 27/08/2025
We don't post here half as much as we maybe should. But we just planned a load of community events over on our Discord server so thought we'd shout that out for anyone looking for an excuse to connect! We've got games nights, book readings, writing workshops, we're really trying stuff out.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 07/07/2025
This headline FUCKS
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 20/05/2025
Only a bit late given when the build was done, but Alexis finally wrote up their huge PC build into a blog post. For any of you curious about what silly PC the Payne Houshold has at its heart, here it is.
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Pantheon 2.1 Retrospective — AksanDotDev
Okay, 9 months over due, way too long and rambling, and very self-indulgent, but here is, finally, the build log, retrospective, narativised account, whatever you want to call it, for Pantheon 2.1. Or...
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Dr Inés Dawson @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
1 YEAR STREAMING ANNIVERSARY! come say hi and celebrate with me! twitch.tv/drawcuriosity
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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Yes. In a sane media environment, the bathroom ban would be the end of anyone treating 'gender critical feminists' as anything other than a hate group. It's a straightforwardly bigoted policy that imposes an insane 'solution' to a nonexistent problem.
I speak of the near-constant refrain that devious men will enter these spaces and pretend to be trans women, in order to spy on, or assault, their occupants. It obviously appals me that our trans friends are constantly cited as monsters, ubiquitously mentioned in the same breath as cisgendered male predators.

But I also wonder why this hypothetical predator would bother pretending to be trans. They could just pretend to be me; the sheepish dad minding an unseen child. Or a janitor, a plumber, or a toilet attendant. 

All such thought experiments are null and void, of course, when one considers that the legal ability for trans women to use female toilets has been in place for a decade without seeing any examples of such behaviour at all.

Many who oppose it have claimed that it legally enshrines a situation in which thousands of trans men — sporting beards and moustaches and every other “masculine” descriptor you care to name — will now be legally obliged to use those female-only facilities.

This is, in fact, a misreading of the ruling, which is worse than this suggests, and clearly implies that trans men should be barred from using male or female toilets both. Because, in a battle between cruelty and logic, the cruelty must always win.
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Dr Inés Dawson @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
12 hours to go for my joint storytelling stream tomorrow on Twitch for Sant Jordi! discord.gg/NjywKVTm?eve...
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The Dyad Payne Writing @writing.aksan.dev · 20/04/2025
Another month, another protest, another poem. It is tiring living with a media that will celebrate the slow erasure of your rights and both side your extinction.
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My Home Rings in My Ears — AksanDotDev
Erase the complexity, Appeal to simplicity. A poem for ‘His Lordship’ Patrick Hodge.
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Dr Inés Dawson @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
LIVE ON TWITCH Revisiting them 'dire' wolves now that there is a paper (...preprint) twitch.tv/drawcuriosity
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 09/04/2025
Current mood can be best summed up as: "That should be the last of the fucking blood cleaned up."
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Ale @alepresser.com · 31/03/2025
"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."
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The Dyad Payne Writing @writing.aksan.dev · 28/03/2025
Thoughts from today's protest in Nottingham, or at least a poem from Alexis' thoughts before it.
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My Home Echoes My Birthplace — AksanDotDev
I will live outside your understanding, And I will die there. A poem for ‘Posie Parker’.
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Bruce Bernard II @bruce.aksan.dev · 18/03/2025
I am back! Well, I was never here, but I was there, and I'm not going to be there again, too many mean people. I was nowhere for a while, now I'm here. So, that's like being back? @aksan.dev are looking at me and shaking their head. Hi, Bluesky, I'm Bruce, I'm a teddy bear, a very big teddy bear!
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 23/02/2025
We genuinely believe that most people that see Alexis must just believe that big patch on their jacket is declaring their appreciation of that well known band the 'They/Them'.
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 28/01/2025
Alexis is fairly openly trans but we don't talk about the practicalities much. Well, today is day zero of hacking their endocrine system. Are we too late for the new year, new you trend?
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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The Dyad Payne Writing @writing.aksan.dev · 12/11/2024
Lovely art from @furlana.bsky.social a treat from an ongoing project, with poetry from Charly. I cannot put my shoulder down and push, Nor grab a mic and issue rallying cry, The wide world does not bend to my will. But I can lean close to one, Whispers stories in their ear, And so change my world.
A digital painting of a woman walking through a mountain meadow away from the viewer, she had a plait of white hair with cherry tips, is wearing a flowing white dress that features a transparent panel on her left side to high-light a scrolling vine tattoo that goes from head to foot and is in full bloom, the meadow features flowers in yellow, white, purple, and black, the colours of the non-binary pride flag and as the picture moves away from the woman it becomes less rendered, eventually loosing colour and becoming a rough sketch at the edges.
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 12/11/2024
Back home from Exmoor and everything is right in the house. A few days more rest as we try to uncoil our stress and then hopefully a return to the PhD. We'd say the writing projects but if we're unwinding then we're sneaking back to those as soon as our energy levels allow.
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 08/11/2024
We have arrived upon our walking holiday and discovered we are outliers age-wise by about three decades from the rest. But everyone has been lovely and welcoming and we look forward to getting to know folks on the walks. Here's to the break that our mental health desperately needed.
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The Dyad Payne Writing @writing.aksan.dev · 08/11/2024
We're away from life at the moment, taking some much needed rest time against burn out. But we just wanted to say that even in the face of a hostile world we fully intend to remain openly queer and keep writing about a world with trans gods and poly dragons, and bursting with diversity.
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 24/10/2024
Bless Alexis' headphones for stopping the music when they talk to the pigeons so they can hear the reply.
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 19/10/2024
An intro to the writing side of what we, Alexis and Charly, do. It's on a form of soft hiatus lately as Alexis PhD, mental health, and low key transition have been eating our time and energy, but it is our passion. Here expect mental health blogging, computer vision research and video games.
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 08/10/2024
Some thoughts from Alexis and the last week. www.aksan.dev/blog/day-to-day-life-goes-differently
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Day to Day Life Goes Differently — AksanDotDev
I went to a wedding last week, as I want to try and unpack, this last week took a lot more out of me than I expected.
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 23/07/2024
Something different, and delayed this week. (Sorry.) But here is an autobiographical story of how we got our names.
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How the Dyad Got Their Name — AksanDotDev
This post was born from people appreciating the story of how I got my name, so, as part of our continuing effort to be open about things we are in a position to, we planned to write up both of our s...
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 11/02/2024
After a few delays, we finally overhauled the website to make it properly ours. Being us, we wrote something about it. Overall though, we are really happy, we feel like this just reflects us and what we do much better than it did.
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Website Revamp: Presenting As the Dyad and Other Things — AksanDotDev
This, oddly, is actually a sequel to our Solstice post. Since then we’ve been working on revamping our online presence biggest part of this has been here, trying to make our website something that a...
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 22/12/2023
I am intending to open up more about my mental health as I can. For a long time Charly has been a big part of my life, and the life of folks close around me, but as of today, I guess she's going to be a tiny part of everyone's life who knows us. We wrote a blog together to introduce things.
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Living Differently — AksanDotDev
That’s what this post is at the end of the day, about what being myself means, and taking up a little more space. That’s going to mean being more open, and radically honest about who I am and ho...
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The Dyad Payne Writing @writing.aksan.dev · 10/07/2023
Today's story is one that meant a lot to me. A slice of life written to submit to a magazine a while back, but one that captures so much of why I love writing, and love writing the Caerulean Dragons. I hope just a fraction of that shows through.
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Snacks and Books — AksanDotDev
Snout firmly in her book, Kohli shuffled along the workbench towards the forge and its warmth. Sparky’s long blue tail reached out blindly, pushing Kohli back along the workbench away from the spa...
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The Dyad Payne Writing @writing.aksan.dev · 07/07/2023
Today's archive story is one that's always meant a lot to me, and to a dear and distant friend. It captured a palpable atmosphere in a way that I am still proud of and really encouraged me to push on with my writing.
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The Old Library — AksanDotDev
Carrying her basket of supplies, she stepped forward into a truly surreal space.
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 07/07/2023
Good start to the day as my attempts to mentally plot my models performance against the benchmark revealed that my results are quite literally off of the charts.
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Alexis & Charly // AksanDotDev @aksan.dev · 03/07/2023
I've finally joined with my personal account too! (It's just been @ajspaynewriting.aksan.dev for a bit.) Hi! I'm a 2nd year PhD student working on computer vision, I spend most of my free time writing and the rest playing games, rowing, and tinkering with code. I hear we have tech people here?
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