Matthew J. Prigge
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Matthew J. Prigge
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Librarian, author, collector. My next book is about the true story behind Dog Day Afternoon. Six feet tall.
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Night ruined by Bobby Big Wheel
Winona Ryder is older than Rue McClanahan was when Golden Girls first aired
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Damn, it’s like a CEO’s job is mostly bullshit or something.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Just imagining the moment on Thanksgiving when Trump, emotional, looked around the table and told each one of his children and his beloved wife how he was overcome with love and gratitude as he told each how they have enriched his life, for which he was thankful.
November 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
you should see how firm he stands on union-busting
🧵 Lowe's CEO, one of 8 Black Fortune 500 CEOs, stands firm on DEI.

"Championing Diversity Through Action: Ellison’s approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is rooted in practical change rather than public statements"

Home Depot, meanwhile, allows ICE agents to raid its parking lots.
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Kobe Bryant was a dumbass and a rapist and his pea brained narcissism killed his kid and her friends. Sorry!
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The brewers are so much worse for baseball than the Dodgers.
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving, America
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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phones are officially more protected in the UK than marginalized groups of human beings
Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been cleared of harassing a transgender activist, but was found guilty of criminal damage to her mobile phone.
Father Ted’s Graham Linehan cleared of transphobic harassment
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
When you’ve never heard of a librarian: 🙃🙃🫠🤮🤮🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🇺🇦🛃✂️💈💈💈(I’m joking ~ do not like this)
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 AM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Or maybe a FUCKING BOOK?????
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 23, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Yeah, I know he doesn’t deserve it and I don’t give a shit.
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Fuck the dodgers fuck baseball and fuck all you, specifically my followers.
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Cigarettes used to be cheap enough that you could give a whole pack out to each trick or treater instead of just one or two loosies. Failed fucking empire
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Kurt Suzuki got a one-year contract to manage the Angels.

Remember, when you're licking their boots by advocating for price-fixing, that MLB owners are already planning for a 2027 lockout 13 months ahead of the CBA expiration. They already know they're doing it.
October 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Cecil Fielder Bar (1994-1994): At the beginning of the strike-shortened season, then-Tigers slugger Cecil "Big Daddy" Fielder received his own candy bar--essentially a Baby Ruth--nougat, peanuts, and caramel, covered in milk chocolate.
October 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
please blue jays… destroy them
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
www.stereogum.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Oh… you’re going to find joy from a children’s game played by strangers??? How very *simple* of you.
October 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM