🛸 #22: The Computer Is Never Scared Enough

VHS static, PS1 fog, corrupted files and why the future of fear keeps looking suspiciously old.

Oct 2 • The Orbit

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September 2026

When Your Love Story has a Creative Director

Who gets the last word on a Hinge love story? Creative director Ola Sobiecki on leaning into the messiness of modern romance.

Sep 25 • The Orbit, Sarah Yilma, and Marta Litson

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The Swipe Is Having an Identity Crisis

Dating apps turned romance into an interface. Now Tinder is making entertainment, Bumble is moving offline and Hinge has become a publisher.

Sep 18 • The Orbit, Sarah Yilma, and Marta Litson

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🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #21

PLEASE BELIEVE A HUMAN MADE THIS

Sep 3 • The Orbit, Marta Litson, and Sarah Yilma

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August 2026

Satyress: Slop, Salesmanship, or Satire

A demon robot, a mysterious engineer, and the creeping suspicion that none of this is what it seems.

Aug 17 • The Orbit and Kris Litson

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🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #20

A month of Boomer Meals, fast-food lamps and culture stuck in the 90s.

Aug 3 • The Orbit

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July 2026

The Era of SVGA (Sexy Video Game Advertising)

The gloriously horny, wildly misguided age of video game advertising.

Jul 19 • The Orbit and Kris Litson

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🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #19

June was basically the internet opening 47 tabs, spilling Kool-Aid on a CD-ROM, and calling it culture.

Jul 3 • The Orbit

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June 2026

🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #18

Disco-ball logos, offline internet energy, D&AD Pencil standouts, Cannes AI drama, copier-scanned McDonald’s, and a few glorious browser tabs from a…

Jun 1 • The Orbit, Marta Litson, and Sarah Yilma

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May 2026

My Pokémoan

The Devolution of Design

May 22 • The Orbit and Kris Litson

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🛸 The Orbit Dispatch - Issue #17

Hello! We’re back with another monthly bundle of strange ideas, beautiful nonsense, design detours, and internet artifacts that probably should not…

May 4 • The Orbit

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April 2026

Stranger Things has Happened:

When Nostalgia gets Nostalgic

Apr 25 • The Orbit and Kris Litson

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