Going to the terminal in the server room or any of the terminals in the satellites and typing "debug events" will tell you what event is currently active. Then if it's something you're unable to deal with, you can remove meta-paranoia with "debug scrape" in order to save and reload your game.
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Thank you!! Turns out the bug was an "arirSlapper_C" event on my old file (0.8.2). Which is weird bc it had spawned a few days ago and only recently decided to start an event. Not sure what happened on my newer file bc it had saved from long before the "Endless event" happened so I molotov'd myself and avoided going to whiskey at sunset when I reloaded the save which circumvented the "endless event". I might try going back to whiskey at sunset to see if it was the same arir slapper event or if it's somehow caused by William.