diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 91c2b24..1d659a1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
 # directors-assistant
 
 listen on kafka for commands, execute without question
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-
-Depends on librdkafka.redist, but confluent's nuget package doesn't know that.
-and worse, it sounds like the point where it just mysteriously loses an exception is where it would try to load it itself
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diff --git a/directors-assistant.csproj b/directors-assistant.csproj
index 3821ee2..5177b27 100644
--- a/directors-assistant.csproj
+++ b/directors-assistant.csproj
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="confluent.kafka" Version="1.7.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration" Version="5.0.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.FileExtensions" Version="5.0.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json" Version="5.0.0" />