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Natalie Dee
@nataliedee.bsky.social
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♏️♒️♏️ VT. Design/illustration, ceramics, and tarot. Co-host at GBU + The Great Mistake. Come see me at nataliedee.com
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Natalie Dee @nataliedee.bsky.social · Jun 22
Forest Spirit #2. Slipcast porcelain in vintage mold, black engobe, etc.
matte black bunny figurine with black, glossy eyes on white background
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They used to give us visions of our lives flashing before our eyes, and ceremonies where they'd weigh our hearts against a feather.
January 21, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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half of americans don't have a passport, and 1/3 of us don't have $500 in savings, so europeans lecturing us about how we're not going to be received well when traveling abroad doesn't land in the way they might hope
January 21, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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The cops can’t compare to my 2011 Malibu skills. Nothing can defeat this New Year’s Eve.

#blizzardriders
#rebellionofcars
#hotrods
#musclecars
#nintendo
#nintendotapes
January 1, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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god bless us, everyone
drewtoothpaste.bsky.social drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 29d
today, on Christmas Eve, i am pleased to share with you my short story which won the local paper's holiday writing contest. alt text spread across two images. i didn't choose celeste age 6's illustration to go with this, but it's perfect. may all of you have long food and a merry christmas
"It's the longest food." That's what my father always said about spaghetti, and where we lived, it was true. These days, even in the sticks, you can get foods from all corners of the globe that are as long as December nights, but back then, spaghetti was the king of long. And for my father, its length represented his dearest wish, which was to celebrate the holidays as long as possible. The day after Thanksgiving, my siblings and I would push the garbage cart up to the back door, and with ceremonial flair, our father would pull Thanksgiving leftovers one by one from the icebox. "Yams!" he'd announce, as if taking roll call in a classroom. He'd hold the dish of orange mush up for the whole family to see, and toss it through the back door into the cart with a measured arc. We didn't know how long he had done this, but as kids, we assumed it was forever, and that our father was a mystical being whose existence pre-dated time itself. "Cranberry sauce!" we'd imagine him announcing to a bewildered pack of neanderthals, right before tossing the world's first canned food out of the cave entrance at the feet of a woolly mammoth. The dishes went in order from least to most important, with the turkey being the last to go. This was always more of a heave-ho than a delicate toss, but we still never saw him miss the cart with his final chuck of the season. He'd turn back around with the word "Turkey!" having barely finished escaping his face, and grin in a way I'd only seen elsewhere on toddlers and murderers. "It's time to get long." We'd pile into the sleigh, and he would call our tiny horses' names one by one, before we dashed through late November's snow to the market. It was our tradition that each child should pick a box of spaghetti, and though we didn't have enough money for luxuries, there was never a year we couldn't pay our Long Friday pasta bill. On the way home, someone would invariably ask our father about the suddenly and suspiciously full sack of rattling boxes under the sleigh's bench seat. He'd laugh, a great, big belly laugh that we never heard in summer, and refuse to tell us. Of course, he'd gone shopping while we were distracted in the market, examining the spaghetti through the boxes' windows, trading them back and forth while the shopkeeper looked on, and attempting to weigh them in our hands with our eyes closed. Once home, we'd line up in order by age, and starting with my eldest sister, we'd open and dump our boxes of spaghetti into the iron pot my mother already had heating by the fire. Some years, with a fresh baby in the house, we'd have to wait several minutes, or sometimes even an hour for our youngest sibling to make their way to the boiling pot, finally cheering when the last box of spaghetti went in. "You're in the final stretch!" was something my mother and father would say during this time, to encourage us at dinner, as we ate bowls of ever-softening spaghetti from the family pot. To make their point, they'd take a noodle out and pull it by its ends, and the closer we were to Christmas, the further the spaghetti would stretch. This is also how Hanukkah works but with oil instead of spaghetti. Finally, on Christmas Day, we'd all run downstairs in our sock feet to sit by the tree, and watch our mother open the brand new set of ceramic servingware our father bought every year to replace the dishes and bowls he'd thrown out a month prior. She would take them into the kitchen, and the siblings would each open their Christmas present. By the time we'd each done that, our mother would have reappeared by the tree, this time holding an exquisitely wrapped and ribboned package, bearing a name tag addressed to my father. Not addressed to Mr., not addressed to Father, but his full name, the one we dare never spoke aloud, not even while alone. My father's name? Santa Claus... The Third.
December 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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today at patreon.com/garbagebrainuniversity, the most practical reason you've ever heard to legalize and regulate all drugs. plus: fridge tek, TikTok voice, the end of american intellectualism, and a talking unicorn. join me and @nataliedee.bsky.social now & get over 400 more patron-only episodes.
GBU #487: The Great Mistake with Drew & Natalie Dee All drugs should be sold over the counter How to destroy your foot Listen to this episode at patreon.com/garbagebrainuniversity
December 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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If you were to ask me which Sarah Becan books I had, the answer would be all of them. They're some of my favorite cookbooks! Anyone you know would be thrilled to get any of them, plus you can buy them from her and avoid sending money to the oligarchy this holiday season.
sarahbecan.bsky.social Sarah Becan @sarahbecan.bsky.social · Dec 10
I found out this week that I'm being laid off from my design job at the end of the year. ☹️

My partner's got a job, we have savings, it's not dire.

But if you've ever wanted books or prints from me: sarahbecan.square.site

or shirts or totes: sarahbecan.threadless.com

...now is a great time. 🙂
December 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I had this idea in my head for ages and in 2022 I made it real. They’re too heavy to wear on the daily but they are my Rx. Maybe I’ll try again in the future & make them lighter. #OccularDentata #TheCorinthian
A photo of a pair of eyeglasses built upon with apoxy sculpt, painted with acrylics, and using dental veneers. A nice Cousy of resin over top to give them a nice slick wet look. Real horror show stuff. The “eye glasses” part around the teeth looks like human gums and each panel of prescription glass a mouth. A photo of a pair of eyeglasses built upon with apoxy sculpt, painted with acrylics, and using dental veneers. A nice Cousy of resin over top to give them a nice slick wet look. Real horror show stuff. The “eye glasses” part around the teeth looks like human gums and each panel of prescription glass a mouth. A photo of a pair of eyeglasses built upon with apoxy sculpt, painted with acrylics, and using dental veneers. A nice Cousy of resin over top to give them a nice slick wet look. Real horror show stuff. The “eye glasses” part around the teeth looks like human gums and each panel of prescription glass a mouth. A photo of a mid-40’s white woman with a naturally grey bob wearing a pair of eyeglasses built upon with apoxy sculpt, painted with acrylics, and using dental veneers. A nice Cousy of resin over top to give them a nice slick wet look. Real horror show stuff. The “eye glasses” part around the teeth looks like human gums and each panel of prescription glass a mouth. She is also wearing small denture looking dangling earrings and a metal collar that also has human looking teeth in it with pink gums around them. She is wearing a lacy Victorian looking shirt.
May 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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My Christmas gift this year is gonna be unfollowing anyone who posts a Spotify Unwrapped.
December 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Revelation 6:6 "And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying: Two pounds of wheat for a penny, and thrice two pounds of barley for a penny, and see thou hurt not the oil..."

Having the gas despite everything else being💰 is a sign of the Apocalypse. Just saying!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Dec 2
Trump: "China doesn't have gasoline. We do."
December 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Wow, all of the ceramic pieces on my site were sold out by this morning, except for this bowl. Weirdly, it was my favorite piece from the whole load. If you want to snag it before someone else does, go grab it at nataliedee.com.
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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It’s here, the new nataliedee.com. I’ll be posting ceramics, writing, and all future art projects on this page, exactly where it all belongs. If you want ceramics, now is the time! Once they’re gone, they’re gone
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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This is my favorite thing Drew has ever made. I read it page-by-page as he was writing it, a couple times when he was laying it out and proofreading it, and probably 4 or 5 more times since then. Everything he's made since Veins has been a victory lap, IMO.
drewtoothpaste.bsky.social drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Nov 17
my novel VEINS is now available at drewtoothpaste.com and i'm including some excerpts here. it downloads as a PDF and it's $4.99
Veins by DREW I started doing slogans when I was 18. That's just a phrase you say to advertise someone's company. They're free to make, but they're worth a lot if you get the right one. For example, "It's cold. It's dessert. We call it ice cream." That works for any ice cream company. Or you can make a specific slogan like "Take a bite out of life. Apple Computer." The logo of Apple has a bite in it, so it's perfect. Every company needs a slogan so you remember them. Even regular things like lamps need a slogan. A lot of people probably think lamps are no big deal, but wait until it gets dark outside. Then you really appreciate them. A hundred years ago when it got dark, we would just have to go to bed, but not now. "Thanks, Lamps." That's a lamp slogan. "Don't live half your life in the shadows." That's another one they could use. In Finland, they only have sun half of the year, and they get depressed. It can happen to anyone. Companies like Apple or lamp companies can afford to spend money on slogans, because it's all profit. You don't need anything special to make a lamp. All you need is a lightbulb and a dream. Put quotes around that, because it's another great slogan. Bug spray is really expensive, so I tried to catch some spiders and put them in my apartment, to be natural predators. I only got 6 spiders, and after I put them under my bed, all they did was make spiderwebs. I had to pull all the spiderwebs I found (they are gross and make your apartment look dirty) but they kept making more every day. I got tired of pulling them, so I squashed the spiders I could find and looked on the internet to find other predators. When I searched online it said the main predator of bugs was lizards, but I didn't want to get them. Lizardwebs would be even worse (because they are bigger than spiders) and I didn't want to be sitting at home and have them stare at me with their dead eyes. You don't know if they are going to just snap and bite you, or s---- on your bed, because they don't have eyebrows, or emotions. I still don't like swimming. When I drive by the water park I start feeling nervous like someone's going to yell at me. They'll take my glasses, and they'll put me on the slide, and when I get to the bottom I can't find my glasses, and I'm cold, and my skin is poisoned. Swimming for me is like going to a store, and as soon as you walk in, they put a blindfold on you and spray Raid. Then, when you get back home, everyone tells you "I love that store."
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I am always giving these birds treats because I LOVE hearing them lose their minds when they peck around and find The Good Shit.
drewtoothpaste.bsky.social drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Nov 15
don't get mad at me for putting their food on the ground. they like it better that way
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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join @nataliedee.bsky.social and me in today's The Great Mistake, where we give you the nasty details on just how wretched the billionaires really are: patreon.com/garbagebrain...
#481: Billionaires who look like shit and can't feed themselves. The breakaway civilization. How to joke when America is under attack.
October 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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drewtoothpaste.bsky.social
the pathetic apple tree in my front yard dropped all of its leaves but still has five apples hanging on it. it looks like i got a stick from the woods and glued apples onto it but it's a real tree
my apple tree
October 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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drewtoothpaste.bsky.social
a few weeks ago, me and @nataliedee.bsky.social quietly launched our new series The Great Mistake, where we make fun of the worst things tech bros and corporations are doing right now, and, more importantly, how you can get out from under their thumbs. Listen @ patreon.com/garbagebrainuniversity
Garbage Brain University #478: Sovereign citizens. Luddites. Touching poop. Soap operas. Letting a chatbot ruin your marriage. The downfall of the Al Necklace. The Great Mistake a Garbage Brain University podcast with Drew & Natalie Dee https://patreon.com/garbagebrainuniversity
October 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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big dot mug, thrown, painted and glazed by me
October 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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i'd like to give a shoutout to the moon, she's really on her bullshit out there tonight.
October 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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truer words were never spoken.
spaceballsfanclub.bsky.social Jish @spaceballsfanclub.bsky.social · Sep 28
I'm my best self when I'm high as balls, and simply put, I don't like to deprive others of being around the best version of my self
September 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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today, @nataliedee.bsky.social and I talked about several things, some of them too controversial for the ears of the public, and so this episode is For Patrons Only. to listen, simply become a patron and you'll get 400+ patrons-only episodes here: patreon.com/garbagebrain...
Drew & Natalie Have A Normal Conversation, Episode 20: Finger Expertise Et Al Today, we talk: Finger expertise A very old hamster Eco burials Reverse werewolf Worm lifestyle Driving the bus AI customer service Why people hate art 3I/ATLAS How to be wrong plus other ideas, past and present. For patrons only.
September 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Logging back on after dinner and bluesky's like
Two guys in big hats and robes over a weird symbol in a weird blue paneled circular room with weird yellow framed paintings like tarot cards but more surreal. They're doing some weird ritual yep it's a still from jodorowskys holy mountain
August 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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a selection of our recent episodes of Everything Is Real. this 140-episode series is for patrons only, but the good news is that it's all yours for five bucks: patreon.com/garbagebrain...
Everything Is Real, Episode 141: The Law Of One Is Real Everything Is Real, Episode 140: The Disappearance of Jacobo Grinberg Is Real Everything Is Real, Episode 139: The Betz Mystery Sphere Is Real Everything Is Real, Episode 138: Indrid Cold Is Real
August 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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i'm selling some original Toothpaste For Dinner art at drewtoothpaste.com. first come, first served (signed, selected randomly, ships separately from shirts)
a pile of original Toothpaste For Dinner comic art
August 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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AI converts simpletons into monsters, turns lonely people insane, and it does so by looting public resources, destroying the planet, and stealing from the creative. It’s not revolutionary. It’s just Facebook 2.0. But now every tech oligarch can get in on the ground floor.
August 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM