Martha Hepler
@marthamhepler.bsky.social
Housewife pondering Imago Dei and all the implications. American in northern France. Writing about humane Christian family formation at https://open.substack.com/pub/marthahepler
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Martha Hepler
@marthamhepler.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Despite all my rage, I am still just a butterfly that will live the entirety of its short life beating its wings against the stained glass windows of a medieval chapel.
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"'Elon Musk is becoming a role model now,' said Zhang. An increasing number of 'crazy rich' clients are commissioning dozens, or even hundreds, of U.S.-born babies with the goal of 'forging an unstoppable family dynasty.'" www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate
Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites are building mega-families—testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them.
www.wsj.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"'Elon Musk is becoming a role model now,' said Zhang. An increasing number of 'crazy rich' clients are commissioning dozens, or even hundreds, of U.S.-born babies with the goal of 'forging an unstoppable family dynasty.'" www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
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A whole hateful sect of this country relies on everybody else lying to themselves about what “funny” and “joke” actually mean.
December 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A whole hateful sect of this country relies on everybody else lying to themselves about what “funny” and “joke” actually mean.
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The future of healthcare if assisted suicide becomes legal.
December 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The future of healthcare if assisted suicide becomes legal.
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
Free idea brought to you by sick brain: “Baby Got Back” spoof video but with people in Victorian dress
It’s so perfect it’s probably already been done
It’s so perfect it’s probably already been done
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Free idea brought to you by sick brain: “Baby Got Back” spoof video but with people in Victorian dress
It’s so perfect it’s probably already been done
It’s so perfect it’s probably already been done
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“Our students are about to turn subcognitive.”
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“Our students are about to turn subcognitive.”
After an Injury, I Had to Wear Adult Diapers. Now, I Kind of Miss Them.
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I know there are so many bigger things in the news to be upset about, but this just makes me so sad and angry. How did no one on her tour (not just the staff) insist on staying with her? Maybe she would’ve died anyway, but she wouldn’t have been alone.
October 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I know there are so many bigger things in the news to be upset about, but this just makes me so sad and angry. How did no one on her tour (not just the staff) insist on staying with her? Maybe she would’ve died anyway, but she wouldn’t have been alone.
Should Christians ask a word-guessing machine to heal the tenderest parts of our souls?
Can AI heal your heart?
A few months ago, I opened Instagram to see a post from a fellow believer describing having been comforted in her grief by ChatGPT.
marthahepler.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Should Christians ask a word-guessing machine to heal the tenderest parts of our souls?
The movies, which are fun, are also largely to blame for this!
Men assume Pride & Prejudice is a Hallmark romance when the plot is driven by the Bennet sisters’ fear of starvation because they will be homeless when their father dies. It’s a book about money, about people, and those who dismiss it as saccharine fluff are cheating themselves.
October 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The movies, which are fun, are also largely to blame for this!
On grief, memory, and visiting the American Kindergraves of Kaiserslautern: marthahepler.substack.com/p/walking-in...
Walking in Kaiserslautern
Grief, memory, and becoming Real
marthahepler.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
On grief, memory, and visiting the American Kindergraves of Kaiserslautern: marthahepler.substack.com/p/walking-in...
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It is not just the act of violence but the spirit of violence that must be opposed. It is not just the action to harm another which must be opposed but the desire that harm would fall to another. If we do not have the courage to pursue a politics of love, our political heart will be consumed by hate
September 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It is not just the act of violence but the spirit of violence that must be opposed. It is not just the action to harm another which must be opposed but the desire that harm would fall to another. If we do not have the courage to pursue a politics of love, our political heart will be consumed by hate
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All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
September 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
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Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
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People will protect their children from anything except another adult who they want to like them.
August 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
People will protect their children from anything except another adult who they want to like them.
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‘The 13th Warrior’ was released on this day 26 years ago! (August 27, 1999)
Directed by John McTiernan.
Starring Antonio Banderas, Vladimir Kulich, Dennis Storhøi, Omar Sharif, Diane Venora, Tony Curran, Richard Bremmer, Mischa Hausserman, & more.
[📽 via Touchstone Pictures] #OnThisDay #90sMovie
Directed by John McTiernan.
Starring Antonio Banderas, Vladimir Kulich, Dennis Storhøi, Omar Sharif, Diane Venora, Tony Curran, Richard Bremmer, Mischa Hausserman, & more.
[📽 via Touchstone Pictures] #OnThisDay #90sMovie
August 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
‘The 13th Warrior’ was released on this day 26 years ago! (August 27, 1999)
Directed by John McTiernan.
Starring Antonio Banderas, Vladimir Kulich, Dennis Storhøi, Omar Sharif, Diane Venora, Tony Curran, Richard Bremmer, Mischa Hausserman, & more.
[📽 via Touchstone Pictures] #OnThisDay #90sMovie
Directed by John McTiernan.
Starring Antonio Banderas, Vladimir Kulich, Dennis Storhøi, Omar Sharif, Diane Venora, Tony Curran, Richard Bremmer, Mischa Hausserman, & more.
[📽 via Touchstone Pictures] #OnThisDay #90sMovie
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Because not all women “are people other people come out of” (as someone recently said), I am giving away one copy of this book (I’m a contributor) to one person at each of my social media channels. Comment, share, tag. I will pick someone at the end of the week.
August 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Because not all women “are people other people come out of” (as someone recently said), I am giving away one copy of this book (I’m a contributor) to one person at each of my social media channels. Comment, share, tag. I will pick someone at the end of the week.
Forever am going to call them blueb-berries
“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.
(real, one-shot :p )
August 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Forever am going to call them blueb-berries
The addiction-as-disease model falls wildly short.
I always loved this 2019 interview with one of Jeffrey Epstein's best friends where he complains people are being very unfair to his friend Jeffrey because he had a disease called being a huge pervert not unlike tuberculosis.
www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
July 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The addiction-as-disease model falls wildly short.
Just said a gentle “hello” to a toddler. He ran away and fell down.
June 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Just said a gentle “hello” to a toddler. He ran away and fell down.
“In taking reproduction out of the bodies of a man and a woman and placing it in a lab and in the hands of people who will be total strangers to the children who are the result of their work, we are domesticating, corporatizing, commodifying and controlling the generation of life.”
June 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“In taking reproduction out of the bodies of a man and a woman and placing it in a lab and in the hands of people who will be total strangers to the children who are the result of their work, we are domesticating, corporatizing, commodifying and controlling the generation of life.”
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Would you like to see a 500-year-old yew tree growing in the ruins of an old abbey
June 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Would you like to see a 500-year-old yew tree growing in the ruins of an old abbey
Re: the UK & NY legislative moves recently—I can’t seem to think of an example of oppression of a group of people lessening, their situation in society improving, by making it easier for them to be killed.
June 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Re: the UK & NY legislative moves recently—I can’t seem to think of an example of oppression of a group of people lessening, their situation in society improving, by making it easier for them to be killed.
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Oh cool, it’s now easier for disabled people to die than to catch a train
June 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Oh cool, it’s now easier for disabled people to die than to catch a train