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Wonderful Starfish
@wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
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Psych RN, writer, gamer, parent. Up late on the socials while rocking a fussy baby.

#ReportableEvents- a horror/comedy flash fiction project.

Also, don't use ChatGPT for therapy.
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Reportable Events, episode 62

Original Post 11/27/2017

"Try Before You Buy"

In which we can't have nice things, because that would be bribery.

#flashfiction
#ReportableEvents
Try Before You Buy Becky the pharmaceutical rep came in today to show off some new drugs. Apparently she used to bring by free lunches and concert tickets and the like with the samples. Now the government is cracking down on that sort of thing, so she can’t offer material incentives anymore. Today she had some immaterial incentives instead. Dr Hansen got the sensation of waking up when you didn’t realize you had fallen asleep, I got the last thoughts of a dying man. I feel a little weird about accepting that because isn’t that basically taking a bribe?
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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I finally finished up the Brine & Blood podcast from @pathofnight.bsky.social breaking my streak of drifting away from podcasts for the last few years.

I liked the story and acting but the tech side was what I appreciated the most. It's actually *edited* and everyone's mic works.
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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That stage of #parenting when you realize your kid saying they are too sick for school is probably the best indicator that they are fine to go.
December 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Reportable Events, episode 61

Original Post 11/24/2017

"Thanks But No Thanks"

In which we count our blessings

#flashfiction
#ReportableEvents
Thanks But No Thanks Worked Thanksgiving. Seeing this place on a holiday is always interesting. Here is what I am thankful for this year: Broad spectrum antibiotics. Eye wash stations. The wards keeping the Thing in the basement contained. Patient controlled analgesic pumps. IV tubing sturdy enough to use to zip line out of a fifth floor window. Cafeteria breadsticks. PRN antiemetics. Beautiful phlebotomists that apparently only I can see.
December 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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So in my dream, I was in my friend from college's dojo in a converted train station in the area between Santa Monica and Mordavia from Quest for Glory when ICE appeared and wrestled a student out of class. I helped him escape but fuck them for thinking they have jurisdiction over our dreams.
December 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Reportable Events, episode 60

Original Post 11/22/2017

"Anyone have a pen?"

In which we reveal the first rule of nursing.

#flashfiction
#ReportableEvents
#nursing
Anyone have a pen? A basic rule of working in a hospital is to never let your pen out of your sight because nurses will always steal your pen if given a chance. I’ve lost three pens to people on staff since the summer, and found that I’ve accidentally stolen two more. Everyone just reflexively pockets any pen they happen to be holding. I’m trying to figure out why this is. Arleen says it’s just because we always need to take notes. Svetlana says that it’s because the Thing fears knowledge and thus the written word so it won’t attack you if you have pens on you.
December 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Tempted to respond to a post with 6 likes by saying "well this blew up"
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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5:57 AM- Holy shit it's early

6:01 AM- What the fuck are you still doing in bed
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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For #WorldBuildingWednesday I'm looking at today's my December project: dCember, a 1d31 table of weird ailments.

What if Brain Mice were a thing?

#worldbuilding #ttrpgs #ttrpg #d&d #dnd
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social Wonderful Starfish @wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social · 2d
3. Brain Mice- a swarm of diminutive mice replace your brain. It still functions, just powered by tiny mice instead of synapses. Advantage against mind altering effects, disadvantage on initiative. Hunger for cheese, fear of cats.
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Reportable Events, episode 59

Original Post 11/20/2017

"Thanksgiving break"

In which we consider holiday options.

#flashfiction
#ReportableEvents
Thanksgiving break It’s Thanksgiving break at school, which is great in theory, but in practice it just means that I’m going to be picking up extra shifts. I’ve never seen Thanksgiving in a hospital, so that should be interesting. I hear the cafeteria puts on a nice meal. Alternatively, I found this flyer for a dinner in the North Chapel. It invites people to attend “The Great Feast” and promises activities like “paeans to the horned one”, “the Great Rite”, and charades. I might check that out but it doesn’t mention if there will be vegetarian options.
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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And I was just about to resubscribe too. Guess not now.
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Sick baby sleeping on me. I, like a villain, dare to move my leg in preparation for bringing him back to bed and he screams his head off. He settles down but he's breathing hard and fast like he's sleeping angry at me.

#parenting
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Reportable Events, episode 58

Original Post 11/17/2017

"Fifth Clinical Day in East"

In which alternative medicine is practiced.

#flashfiction
#ReportableEvents
Fifth Clinical Day in East Holy shit! I saw a ballpoint pen tracheotomy today! It was just like it looks on TV. So cool. Granted, it was in the OR so I’m not sure why the doctor used a pen instead of any of the sterile medical tools in the room, but still super cool.
December 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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So *both* kids are sick and waking up crying every few. Tonight will be something...
December 2, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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There's a lot of annoying questions nurses get asked. "Why aren't you a doctor?" is probably the worst.
mixedlinguist.bsky.social Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 5d
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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I mean, why not add a new daily project?

For the month of December, a (largely) system agnostic d31 table for #ttrpgs. I call it...

dCember

#d&d #dnd #ttrpg

dCember 2025: 1d31 Weird Ailments.

Starts today!
December 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Reportable Events, episode 57

Original Post 11/15/2017

"Today I Was Brave"

In which the first step is the hardest.

#flashfiction
#ReportableEvents
Today I Was Brave Well, it’s taken me a few weeks but I finally got up the nerve to talk to the girl in phlebotomy. I introduced myself and asked her name and she said “They took my name long ago, when they took everything else.” I asked if I could call her Phoebe since she works in Phlebotomy. She says that she doesn’t work there so much as is imprisoned there, but she’s okay with Phoebe.
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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As the least sick member of my household, I have a lot of empathy for the one-eyed man.
November 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Today in bad faith arguments...

"Only 20% of nurses hold advanced degrees"

There are well over *4 million* nurses in the country.

800,000 APRNs is more than dentists, pharmacists, and podiatrists combined. Roughly equal to number of practicing physicians.

#nursing
The DoEd further states that assertions that not classifying nursing as a “professional degree” means they don’t view them as professionals is a myth. Instead, they suggest, “The definition of a ‘professional degree’ is an internal definition used by the Department to distinguish among programs that qualify for higher loan limits, not a value judgement about the importance of programs.” They further justify the change in definition noting that only 20% of nurses hold advanced degrees.
November 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Reportable Events, episode 56

Original Post 11/13/2017

"No Longer Covered in Spiders"

In which we say farewell to a beautiful time, but probably for the best.

#flashfiction
#ReportableEvents
#CoveredinSpiders
No Longer Covered in Spiders Good news! I am no longer covered in spiders! Now that everything has calmed down, I was able to deal with the amounts of spiders that have been all over me for days. According to Dr. Varma they were a colony of self-replicating nano-bots that attached themselves to me during my visit to the Chief of Medicine’s office. It turns out that a quick trip to the Ecumenical Interfaith Worship and Meditation Center was all I needed to get rid of them. There are so many electronics in that room that the EM field just fried their tiny circuits. The spiders were protecting me from being possessed by the spirit army but they would have eventually attempted to reprogram my brain and unleash a nano-plague that would have covered the globe. So both pros and cons there.
November 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Predators divide the world into two categories: flies and webs. Every cool thing they do, every person their nice to, all just strands in the web to make it easier to catch thier prey and/or divert attention from what they're up to.

If you find out you're part of a web, don't defend the spider.
pookleblinky.bsky.social Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jun 18
Basically: the reason why so many rightwing chuds are pedophiles, is that pedophiles are very, very good at spotting the people they need to both enable and protect them.

They choose a parasocial audience they know they will be able to manipulate into defending them.
November 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Read to fall asleep or read to stay awake?

#booksky
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Reportable Events, episode 55

Original Post 11/11/2017

"Showing Some Spirit"

In which we wrap this one up

#flashfiction
#ReportableEvents
#CoveredinSpiders
Showing Some Spirit Well, we did it. The spirits were defeated and everyone is free of their influence. We broke Dr. Varma out of the block of amber the spirits were keeping her in. She was able to use the PA system to read a Sumerian litany that made the spirits recoil in pain. Once we had them on the run, it was a simple matter of forcing them back into South where the Reliquary banished them and freed their victims. All told it took about four and a half hours. The only question that remains is, how do I log this on my time sheet? EDIT: Oh wait, there's an option for that: Image from the Libra Hospital timecard software, drop down of pay codes. Includes the following: Regular Bereavement Discretionary Time Floating Holiday Comp Holiday Holiday Worked Jury Duty Leave without Pay Fighting Spirit Horde Misc Personal Leave Personal Holiday Retro Pay
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Trying to get the Bluesky algorithm to understand that I don't really play Magic anymore, even though I will click on any image of a card it shows me.
November 29, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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In Flanders fields the poppies grow
His house is in the village though
He will not see me stopping here
To hear time's swift chariot drawing near

#poetry
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM