AstroTerps 

The University of Maryland Astronomical Society - - A group of students at the University of Maryland who are either astronomy majors, or interested in the field of astronomy. The group meets every so often to discuss recent news in astronomy and/or space flight and is open to all who are interested.

Student 1: "Hey, is there a group on campus dedicated to astronomy?"
Student 2: "Yeah, the AstroTerps, go to CSS and ask around about joining, anyone who's interested can be a member."

AstroTerps by orbital physicist November 6, 2009

astroTERFing 

The use – by men – of fake social media accounts that pose as feminist women, to object to the rights of trans women to be recognized as women. See also: Astroturfing, TERF.

Most of the people defending this anti-trans bigot are puppet accounts with stock photos of women for avatars. Literal fake women supporting transphobia: typical astroTERFing!

astroTERFing by JAQrabbit January 23, 2019

Astroterf 

The combination of astroturf and TERF. The spamming of feminism-themed transphobic opinions in media at a scale disproportional to actual opinion.

With recent polls suggesting that more women are accepting of trans women than not, what we see on Twitter every day may as well be astroterf.

Astroterf by Artoria2e5 January 30, 2022

Astroderping 

When a company uses fake accounts to make it seem like regular people support their corporate political positions but the people posting are too stupid not to get caught.

Did you see all the fools astroderping for Amazon recently? Similar to astroturfing except the people posting are too dumb to get away with it.

Astroderping by luminol1 March 30, 2021

astroTERFing

A fake-grassroots anti-trans dogpile created by a mix of low-effort troll accounts, engagement farm bots, and Facebook's conflict-addicted algorithm.

Looks like a mass movement. Is actually twelve dudes in a telegram chat and 38 semi-automated emoji scripts.

Real life is supportive. Facebook is just astroTERFing.

astroTERFing by AnEmma May 6, 2026

AstroTERF

A bot account who is bigoted against trans people in order to divide the working class and redirect anger against the ruling class against beautiful incredible amazing trans people.

Wow, that account is clearly part of an AstroTERF campaign

AstroTERF by AnEmma May 6, 2026