diff --git a/packages/bookwyrm/package.nix b/packages/bookwyrm/package.nix
index 76bef58..8d01e91 100644
--- a/packages/bookwyrm/package.nix
+++ b/packages/bookwyrm/package.nix
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ mkDerivation {
 			oauthlib
 			opentelemetry-api
 			opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc
-			opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc
 			opentelemetry-sdk
 			pilkit
 			pillow
@@ -107,11 +106,11 @@ mkDerivation {
 		pythonDependencies="${ concatStringsSep " " pythonDependencies }"
 		for package in $pythonDependencies ; do
 			for directory in $( cd $package/lib/python3.11/site-packages ; find -mindepth 1 -type d -not -name __pycache__ ) ; do
-				mkdir -p $out/lib/python3.11/site-packages/$directory
+				mkdir -p $out/lib/python3.11/site-packages/$directory &
 			done
 
 			for file in $( cd $package/lib/python3.11/site-packages ; find -type f -not -path \*__pycache__\* ) ; do
-				ln -s $package/lib/python3.11/site-packages/$file $out/lib/python3.11/site-packages/$file
+				ln -s $package/lib/python3.11/site-packages/$file $out/lib/python3.11/site-packages/$file &
 			done
 		done