Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼

@rollonyouchairs

Oakland-based dude with a spinal cord injury. Disability, urbanism, climate change, human rights in general, Cal sports, Niners and Warriors. I do policy and PR consulting on those first 3 topics. Available for partnerships. www.disabilityimby.com

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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· 23d

People on nextdoor want to organize peaceful protests to protect parking on one street.

A post on nextdoor.

With the City Council's recent decision regarding the Hopkins Street bike lanes, many of us are deeply concerned about the loss of parking, the impact on elderly residents accessing the MLK track/pool, and local business survival. Strong citizen voices—and even peaceful protests—can make the council rethink this plan, but we need to act collectively.

Can someone step up to be the main contact to help write a formal objection letter to the city council and coordinate gathering signatures?

I am more than happy to help organize, but we need a dedicated point person to centralize the effortthis specific issue.

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Jul 18

My gosh, NIMBYs are a fascinating kind of delusional...

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Michelle [redacted] 21m Elmwood

David The housing crises is NOT a housing crisis. It’s an affordability crises. It’s very expensive to live here, but that’s the case in other nearby towns like Pacific Heights or Mill Valley or Palo Alto yet nobody ever is picketing those towns and screaming for affordable housing!

For whatever reason, there is some sense that Oakland and Berkeley DESERVE to be affordable—it may have been at one time, but it’s not anymore. Look at any artist commune among the coast of California where people got shacks and bungalows to live and find inspiration, and those towns have all become Mendocino and Laguna Beach and even Stinson with multimillion dollar restate. It changed over time. Nobody is hollering the unfairness of affordable housing there.

The good news is that there’s ample towns nearby that ARE less expensive to live in.
I’ve lived in a a handful of them myself before settling into my current one.

And given that the recent town meeting about these “senior towers” stated that the rents for these apartments will be somewhere between $4-10k a month, I find the idea of these two massive shiny modern structures on 2-lane College Avenue as an absurd solution to any housing crisis. I don’t know one senior who could afford that…. let alone a typical resident.

And as an aside, unless you’re in Manhattan or Hong Kong, nobody wants to live in high-rises. They do make sense near CAL for student populations who have a set timeframe to exist in those structures or renters who want downtown appeals on much wider streets like Shattuck and University.

No structures built in small enclaves like Rockridge or Elmwood will ever be affordable—land costs and building costs dictate that. If you want to build “affordable housing” you need cheaper land and cheaper building costs or government subsidies. Or you do what people have done since the dawn of time, you migrate. Or commute.

Notice how many high-rises have gone up in our local vicinity with cranes on every corner, which supplied numerous units in the area and yet there is still all the screaming of a housing crisis. Nope—it’s affordability because those units are all very expensive to live in.

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Jul 10

True, bestie. True.

Jane Glendinning
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Using next door has grown complicated.
Using next door has grown complicated.

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Jul 4

New mail truck graffiti just dropped

A USPS mail delivery truck covered in spray painted black and gold flowers, photo taken from an apartment window Several stories up

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Jul 2

Fam, how will I live as a renting retiree with a measly $2m in cash??

Sara Hartley
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Elmwood

The average house in the Elmwood was purchased 20-50 years ago. In 1969 a cute 2 BR home was $40k.
Now retired elders face high property tax, tripled water bills, insurance difficulties & big maintenance bills. Yes- they could sell & get $2M but where could they move?
The cynical snarky attitude toward retired teachers, writers, family lawyers etc is what taints progressive politics.

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· May 29

I just want to know how I got on this mailing list, as a Democrat in California... and also, LOL

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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Apr 23

BLIMP

Foreground of city buildings in Oakland. The bridge of a large ship obscured by an apartment building. The bridge of a large ship obscured by an apartment building. In the background, the hills of the San Francisco Peninsula with scattered homes. Off in the distance, an all-white blimp floats through the blue sky.

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Mar 27

And the Treasury Dept's announcement says it's in honor of the country's 250th birthday because “The President’s mark on history as the architect of America’s Golden Age economic revival is undeniable. Printing his signature on the American currency is not only appropriate, but also well deserved.”

Treasury Announces President Donald J. Trump’s Signature to Appear on Future U.S. Paper Currency
March 26, 2026
WASHINGTON – In honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump’s signature will appear on future U.S. paper currency along with the Secretary of the Treasury, marking the first time in history for a sitting president.

“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are on a path toward unprecedented economic growth, lasting dollar dominance, and fiscal strength and stability,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial.”

“As the 250th anniversary of our great nation approaches, American currency will continue to stand as a symbol of prosperity, strength, and the unshakable spirit of the American people under President Trump’s leadership,” said Treasurer Brandon Beach. “The President’s mark on history as the architect of America’s Golden Age economic revival is undeniable. Printing his signature on the American currency is not only appropriate, but also well deserved.”

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Mar 6

Big birb/little birb #hummingbirds #herons #birbs #oakland

A hummingbird and a heron perched on different branches on a tree without leaves. Old two-story building in the background. Obscured Street sign with an oak tree that says 12th Street

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Feb 26

The piece features 7 surgeries & wounds I had from 2004-2014: a spinal fusion & subsequent surgical debridement, a baclofen pump placement & replacement, a partial sacrectomy & flap, a pressure ulcer, & a femural rod. Ultimately, it depicts the surgical side of life w/ a #disability. 2/3

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Feb 22

What a great trio of posts on my feed

3 Bluesky posts.
Hank green. Canada has better jerseys tho.
Jerry Chen. bluesky, The North American yelling about hockey app
Rachel Gilmore. fuck the USA.

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Feb 16

I just love it that DoorDash's #1 Chinese food restaurant in #Oakland (a customer favorite, rated 4.8* w/ 20,000+ reviews) has a storefront that looks like this. Just an ultimate hole in the wall Chinese food restaurant with a giant menu of delicious food. www.doordash.com/store/shando...

Photo of wonton soup in a bowl with a spoon. A DoorDash restaurant link reading “Shandong Restaurant. 4.8*(20k+). 0.2 mi. 114 min. Customer favorite. #1 Chinese”

Google Street View screenshot of a restaurant storefront in Chinatown Oakland with 2 wide windows, one narrow window and a glass door. Rusty air conditioner vents, a single open window with a pulled white curtain, and rusted, crooked lighting up high. Faded red sign with 3 Chinese characters and English text reading “Shan dong restaurant”. Faded blue awning with spray-painted “ovek” on top and painted-over spray paint on the front. Neon “Open” sign and a laminated menu with photos in window. Stickers showing various awards on a narrow window by the door. Crooked “open” sign on the inside of the door. Folded up yellow “caution, wet floor” plastic triangle warning sign propped by the door. A red sign with yellow Chinese symbols for “Shan Dong Restaurant”, and white “food to go” in English, arranged vertically, to the right of the door.

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Feb 16

And one more for good measure

Cloudy skies, airplane up high and mountains with buildings in the background. Foreground has low urban buildings and a couple 150 ft apartment buildings. The center building has a sign that says Port of Oakland. Bridge of a large ship to the right.

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Feb 16

Some photos of today's storm (and birbs) #Oakland #BayAarea

Urban setting with stormy skies and mountains in the background, taken from around 60 ft high. Sun peeking through the clouds and illuminating fans of rain.

Son peeking through storm clouds and illuminating one band of rain. Some buildings in the foreground and mountains in the background.

Urban setting with stormy skies and mountains in the background, taken from around 70 ft. High. Storefronts with signage in English and Chinese in the foreground. Slick streets and red street lights reflecting off the pavement.

A row of seagulls on a rooftop. In the background, rainy skies, apartment buildings and offices, the mast of an aircraft carrier, and far away low mountains

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Jan 13

Today in Oakland USPS graffiti: a sad, exhausted clown

Graffiti on a USPS delivery truck. Sad, pink clown with yellow lips and eye makeup

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Dec 4

The Disability & Climate Trainings will have half-day, full-day and 2-day options. We'll have an individual offering with a certificate of completion, and a training for organizations. All trainees will have access resource library & forum for a year! Learn more at accessibleclimate.com/trainings/

Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼@rollonyouchairs· Dec 4

ACS tackles impacts & action through consulting partnerships & the soon-to-launch Comprehensive Disability & Climate Trainings (first training 1/29/2026). Consider impacts. People w #disabilities (PWDs) are especially hard-hit by countless primary & secondary climate change impacts. 2/5