Tomorrow marks the first solar day of fall 2019 , though you ’d be forgive for not notice in much of the body politic thanks to unseasonably tender temperature anticipate toextend into Octoberthrough much of the nation ( and , well , almost everywhere almost all the timenow ) . And summer went out with a bang , with millions turning out forclimate strikes across the globeon Friday .

This week , we covered Microsoft ’s soiled partnership with Big Oil tospeed up crude oil descent , the falloutof that“Storm Area 51 ” consequence , thebacklash to the Impossible Burger , and the fade of athird of the continent ’s birds . Elsewhere , we looked at theevolution of the X - Men franchise , reviewed the iPhone 11 , and foundthe only beneficial Gifs(quack ! ) .

All this and more , below :

Clockwise from top left: Twentieth Century Fox; Missvain (Wikimedia Commons); Alex Cranz (Gizmodo); Pablo Lopez, “Trippy Duck,” 2018.

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