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New and Improved #Introduction just for Beige.Party!

Hey there! I’m Petrichord (she/her). Please don’t call me Petri—it makes me think of the biology class I failed in college. I signed up for Mastodon back in 2018 but only recently started using it this past year, and then my instance (octodon.social) announced its shutdown so I've decided to migrate here to make new friends! Better late than never, right?

By day, I’m a marketer from New Jersey. By night, I’m a do-everything-else-to-stop-the-encroaching-feeling-of-doom-er. My distraction of choice is #Acting. I have a BFA in #MusicalTheatre performance, and I spend my free time working professionally and with community theatre companies. I sing, dance, act, choreograph, direct, and design costumes. I also run a shadowcast of The #RockyHorror Picture Show and have been a performer with the cast for over a decade.

Other things I’ll probably post about include #Burlesque, #Cosplay, #VideoGames (especially #Horror, #Mystery, and #RPGs), #TabletopGaming & #DnD (I used to be a DnD and Tabletop Gaming Streamer for a pretty big company though I don't do that anymore), #BoardGames, and #Books.

Fun facts: I’m an award-winning writer, but executive dysfunction usually wins, so long posts are rare victories. I’m #ActuallyAutistic and have #ADHD, which means I’m very socially awkward, so chaos comes naturally.

I love Porgs, glitter, and indie perfumes. Eat the rich. Let’s be friends.

Virginia Bell
#cheesecake #pinup #burlesque

A few #introductions:

I run Systems Structure Ltd., a US consultancy that provides fractional CISO services for pre-A to post-C round #startups, along with #threatmodeling training and #securityarchitecture reviews.

I've been working in #security since 2003 and did a spell in NGOland from ~2011 to 2016, working with NGOs and news organizations targeted by states and on tools they use, including the #briar messaging app. The field work I did then fundamentally reshaped my approach to security, and I recommend that everyone in the field learn about the reality of being a high-risk user.

I live in #Helsinki the days, although in the before times (and hopefully soon again) I spent a fair bit of time in #NYC and #London. I run a #queer performance space out of my home, along with my partner, called The Attic (@theatticfi on insta), where we make space for #drag, #burlesque, #performanceart, and music, along other things. Before I moved here, I spent six or so years traveling full time.

I have written various essays over the years, which you can see on dymaxion.org, and I'm slowly writing a book. While security pays the bills, I spend a lot of my time thinking about #complexsystems, and in particular how the human and technical bits mesh, how they fail, and how to redesign them to fail better. In practice, this has meant everything from consulting on a constitution to thinking about what comes after the #climate apocalypse. The "recruiting barbarians" in my bio refers to being more comfortable outside of institutions, but I'm starting to think more about community and infrastructure building now that I live somewhere.

I'm also an #artist; I paint and am slowly learning my way around a #synthesizer, and I've been accused of being an #architect. I'm active in the #nordiclarp scene, where we take larp serious as a dramatic form and do everything from a reworking of Hamlet played at the actual Elsinore castle to a larp about the early days of the HIV crisis. I'm primarily a theorist and critic there, as well as player, and I've edited two books and written a number of essays. Nordic larp has the best toolkit I've seen anywhere for analyzing the human parts of complex systems and especially for building new systems; it's heavily influenced my security work, along with my #designfutures thinking.

It sounds like I should do an #introduction so here we go.

I'm Petrichord. My pronouns are she/her. Please don't call me Petri if you can help it. It makes me think of the biology class I failed in college. I signed up to Mastodon back in 2018 but never really used it until now, but here I am!

I'm from New Jersey and am a marketer by day, and a do- everything-else-to-stop-the-encroaching-feeling-of-doom-er by night.

My distraction of choice is #acting; I have a BFA in #MusicalTheatre performance, and I work both professionally and with community theatre companies in my free time. I sing, dance, act, choreograph, and do costume design. I also run a shadowcast of The #RockyHorror Picture Show, and have been a performer with the cast for over a decade.

My other hobbies which you'll likely see me post about include #Burlesque, #Cosplay, and #VideoGames (I am particularly a fan of #Horror and #Mystery video games), as well as #boardgames and #books.

I'm an award-winning writer but I'm terrible at actually getting myself to write things, so if you see a particularly long post from me it's a rare instance of me wrangling my executive dysfunction into cooperation for the day.

In case you didn't figure it out already, I have #adhd and I'm also #actuallyautistic, although I can't guarantee I'll post about it too often. I'm very socially awkward though so there's that.

I love Porgs, glitter, and indie perfumes. Eat the rich. ​