So, while I was away from my desk a co-worker walked into my office (which had the door closed!) to deliver some paper work and I was just about to do some Photoshop work for the company and this is what my recent items look like on a 32" monitor:
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I have found the setting to not keep recent items in Photoshop. Luckily, nobody gives a shit. Whew.
For reference since It's hard to find: In Photoshop: Edit > Preferences > File Handling > Recent File List Contains > Put in 0.