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Peter Jansen

@omicron416.bsky.social

Liberal/progressive, he/him/his, I strive to be an LGBTQIA+ ally. Gen X by birth, IT by trade, gamer (TT/Xbox/Steam) when I can. Universal Health Care first, then Universal Basic Income. Giving the bird to the bird site and fighting fascism.

created November 10, 2024

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Profile picture Peter Jansen (@omicron416.bsky.social)

Wait, Miss Piggy AND the Golden Girls?!? @riotgrlerin.bsky.social you have outdone yourself! And I seriously hope someone has held on to all of Miss Piggy's outfits over the years, because they would make one HELL of a museum exhibit.

6/9/2025, 3:40:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well done, Eugene!

6/9/2025, 3:33:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You need to read this thread. It won't take long, and it's important.

6/9/2025, 3:30:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You know ...

6/9/2025, 3:23:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes.

6/9/2025, 3:18:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Raul Gomez is best Gomez.

6/9/2025, 3:18:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This might just be the best @riotgrlerin.bsky.social thread yet!

6/9/2025, 3:17:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So ... "chemise de métro" ... Good grief, men are trash.

6/9/2025, 3:10:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Verb or adjective?

6/9/2025, 3:06:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Freedom is Slavery!

6/9/2025, 3:03:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I strongly suspect that those raging Nazi freaks consider "Cry harder" to be a succinct and powerful rebuttal.

6/9/2025, 2:37:29 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Jansen (@omicron416.bsky.social) reply parent

#FrankIsFrank

5/9/2025, 8:28:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Whatever the "B" in HEB" means.

5/9/2025, 8:10:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, I believe they really don't want to DRAW any borders ... they just want to erase the ones between Russia and other countries by taking over those other countries.

5/9/2025, 8:04:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Since January 2017? Up a lot. ... Oh, wait, you meant since January 2025? Same answer.

5/9/2025, 8:02:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just like MAGA!

5/9/2025, 7:58:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've never been to one, but do you mean like Buc-Ee's?

5/9/2025, 7:58:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nani?

5/9/2025, 7:42:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, I'm not seeing a down side here.

5/9/2025, 7:18:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If things get bad enough, that order might get reversed.

5/9/2025, 7:11:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Because #VaccinesWork that's why!

5/9/2025, 6:19:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Those last four words are unnecessary.

5/9/2025, 3:51:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is ethnic cleansing. This is genocide.

5/9/2025, 3:49:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wow!

5/9/2025, 3:47:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not gonna lie, I'm not exactly opposed to anything that humiliates Andrew Cuomo.

5/9/2025, 3:41:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey @kairyssdal.bsky.social did you see this?

5/9/2025, 3:36:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hm, I wonder how much longer he'll have a job ...

5/9/2025, 3:26:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Neither, donate it to their local public radio station!

5/9/2025, 3:20:13 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In case anyone else is wondering, "Ella" is an emergency contraceptive. www.drugs.com/ella.html

4/9/2025, 8:22:22 PM | 22 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Jansen (@omicron416.bsky.social) reply parent

To answer her question: Both.

4/9/2025, 5:43:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To say nothing of the school-to-prison pipeline. Private prisons, of course.

4/9/2025, 5:29:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have you introduced a bill?

4/9/2025, 5:22:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The MN Twins. It would be cool to own a baseball team.

4/9/2025, 5:22:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So I'm not a lawyer (and don't live in Canada) but this sure reads like solicitation of prostitution to me, which, if I understand this Wikipedia article correctly, is illegal. I hope he gets arrested. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostit...

4/9/2025, 5:13:55 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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These two guys are the CEOs of those companies, aren't they? I hope they live on the ground floor!

4/9/2025, 5:07:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Because he is one.

4/9/2025, 4:57:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Less bent, yes, but still very bent.

4/9/2025, 4:40:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This, right here? This is what "pro-life" REALLY means .. or at least what it should mean, not the hateful, misogyist anti-choice garbage that usually comes from people who call themselves that.

4/9/2025, 4:29:15 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I seem to recall he lives (or lived) in New Jersey, though ... thinking of that video Snooki did a while back.

4/9/2025, 4:22:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#VaccinesWork

4/9/2025, 4:15:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We really are in the worst possible timeline. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

4/9/2025, 4:02:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ducking autocarrot!

4/9/2025, 4:01:43 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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LetThemFight.gif

4/9/2025, 3:35:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm sure there's context with which I am unfamiliar, but this is still funny without it!

4/9/2025, 2:54:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love this, going to have to remember it, thank you!

4/9/2025, 2:49:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Black cats rule, I wish I could have one.

4/9/2025, 2:36:20 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love the other dude shutting him down and cutting him off. Just perfect, no notes.

4/9/2025, 2:35:05 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And I, for one, am getting really tired of the social Calvinism.

4/9/2025, 2:20:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good on all four of them for doing the right thing in this case! Which feels a bit weird, given who they are.

4/9/2025, 2:18:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What they said, and not just because I know them. (They both graduated ahead of me from De La Salle.)

4/9/2025, 2:11:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Exactly how I feel. Anyone and everyone in those files needs to be investigated and then prosecuted.

4/9/2025, 2:06:11 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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With thanks to @pharek.bsky.social‬ and in case anyone else does not recognize this person: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison...

4/9/2025, 1:46:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Always nice when people says things like that to let the rest of us know to block them.

4/9/2025, 1:36:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm thinking someone needs to teach him a lesson.

4/9/2025, 1:27:42 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Choosing to not vaccinate your children shoul constitute child abuse. Because #VaccinesWork

4/9/2025, 1:23:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just wish I could afford it!

4/9/2025, 12:29:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love this! (With thanks to @badbrad2024.bsky.social for sharing it first.)

3/9/2025, 8:56:33 AM | 12 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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So ... he's mad she didn't say hello or good evening or whatever? Seems to me (not a Bumble user) that her "opening move" kind of implied a greeting. He needs to either get off his high horse or take the stick out of his ass and possibly both.

3/9/2025, 6:46:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Boosting the signal on this one ... anyone know him? www.youtube.com/shorts/hmSLw...

3/9/2025, 6:43:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I didn't already have more jackets than I likely need, I would find one and buy it.

3/9/2025, 6:42:57 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I respectfully submit that some of his staff do acknowledge it, but even they are unwilling to do so publicly. (They do privately, which is why he's not been seen much lately.)

3/9/2025, 6:40:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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3/9/2025, 4:35:34 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yep. Definite incel vibes.

3/9/2025, 4:06:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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3/9/2025, 3:15:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm skeptical about the 80% figure ... If it was "more unique words than 80% of Grammarly users" I might buy it, though.

3/9/2025, 2:47:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hang on let me pick myself up off the floor from the shock of hearing that ...

3/9/2025, 2:13:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh, and his use of "comfortable" should of course be read as "in control" instead.

3/9/2025, 2:12:40 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Anyone else completely unsurprised that this guy is divorced and his oldest is a seven year old at 46 or is that just me? And where's the kids' mom? I'm guessing this party isn't on a school night so if he didn't "feel comfortable" bringing them why couldn't they stay with her that night?

3/9/2025, 2:11:52 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And by "the West" he means, of course, white supremacy.

2/9/2025, 6:57:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looking forward to them!

2/9/2025, 6:47:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Holy Shibboleth, Batman!

2/9/2025, 6:41:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey, folks, if you want some wholesome nature content, follow this person! And man, "MASSIVE" is an understatement!

2/9/2025, 6:38:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey, I know you from Imgur! Glad to find you here!

2/9/2025, 6:36:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, but has he ever been? Okay, maybe when he was a teenager, but that was a long time and a whole lot of hamberders ago.

2/9/2025, 6:34:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks, blocked him.

2/9/2025, 6:32:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1 & 3.

2/9/2025, 6:27:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm getting an orderlies vibe from those guys ... like they both had to help him get to where he is now standing and will both have to help him get to where he goes next.

2/9/2025, 6:24:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And how do Salesforce's customers feel about the support they're now getting?

2/9/2025, 6:22:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Happy Birthday!

2/9/2025, 2:33:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Should be 240 years.

2/9/2025, 2:32:44 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And her cheekbones. She's not in the range of the Bogdanoff Twins yet, but she's getting there.

2/9/2025, 2:27:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I kinda hope her neighbors access her Wi-Fi, change the network name, then lock her out of it.

2/9/2025, 2:24:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Changing and announcing!

2/9/2025, 2:22:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love those signs!

2/9/2025, 1:54:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Glad to see, but you REALLY need to redesign your flag. At a minimum, change the color of the field. Green — as has already been suggested — would be good as it represents the crops your members tend, harvest, pack, ship, and probably more things of which I am ignorant but very, very grateful.

2/9/2025, 1:49:14 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good!

2/9/2025, 1:38:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, but that autonomy pretty much came to a screeching halt after the war ended ... and yeah, the Red Scare was pretty bad, too.

2/9/2025, 1:37:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Exactly this. Anything they perceive as threatening their supremacy gets framed as "crime" in a pathetic attempt at self-defense.

2/9/2025, 1:29:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is not a failure, it is a deliberate choice.

2/9/2025, 1:25:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And of course, the husband totally confirmed that this is how it's been for as long as he can remember. (sigh.)

2/9/2025, 1:13:48 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean, except for the whole Jim Crow thing and institutionalized misogyny, yeah.

2/9/2025, 1:06:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Same, but I'm not going to support a company that happily platforms and profits from Nazis.

2/9/2025, 1:01:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In case anyone else is wondering, "SCO" in this context stands for "Shanghai Cooperation Organization" and I was today years old when I learned that.

2/9/2025, 12:50:20 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Bean!

2/9/2025, 12:44:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Jansen (@omicron416.bsky.social) reply parent

Right! Thank you, I forgot about that. I hope it's been checked for bugs.

2/9/2025, 12:42:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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America is no longer THE global superpower and possibly not even *A* superpower, and it is because of Little Donnie Krasnov.

2/9/2025, 12:30:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Jansen (@omicron416.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay, I'll admit I didn't follow their meeting in Alaska that closely, but was there ever a time the two of them were alone? (Or just them and Putin's translator.) If so, this is absolutely plausible. Not sure how likely, though.

2/9/2025, 12:21:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, but "52 for 52" after making D.C. and Puerto Rico states.

2/9/2025, 12:14:20 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think you mean "blind" as Jesus did say you should pluck your eyes out if you are tempted when you look.

2/9/2025, 12:12:02 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I respectfully disagree and think her 22 year old brother should have gotten a hotel room himself.

2/9/2025, 12:11:16 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view