Daily Meh is an edited stream of consciousness, by Simen.

Nüshu, the syllabic script used exclusively by women in Hunan, China

Traditionally, Chinese women weren’t allowed to learn the written language. Solution: invent a new, secret script. Nüshu has over a thousand characters, and some of them look like italic versions of Chinese letters. Nüshu, unlike Chinese, is fully syllabic: the characters represent syllables as spoken, unlike Chinese, which is logosyllabic. (Also, I would guess, not as insanely hard to learn.) The last proficient user died in 2004 (she was 98).