diff --git a/nix/python-overrides.nix b/nix/python-overrides.nix
index 3faa4aa99..22bac1ca1 100644
--- a/nix/python-overrides.nix
+++ b/nix/python-overrides.nix
@@ -51,17 +51,6 @@ in {
     inherit (super) txtorcon;
   };
 
-  # With our customized package set a Twisted unit test fails.  Patch the
-  # Twisted test suite to skip that test.
-  # Filed upstream at https://github.com/twisted/twisted/issues/11877
-  twisted = super.twisted.overrideAttrs (old: {
-    patches = (old.patches or []) ++ [ ./twisted.patch ];
-  });
-
-  # The cryptography that we get from nixpkgs to satisfy the pyopenssl upgrade
-  # that we did breaks service-identity ... so get a newer version that works.
-  service-identity = self.callPackage ./service-identity.nix { };
-
   # collections-extended is currently broken for Python 3.11 in nixpkgs but
   # we know where a working version lives.
   collections-extended = self.callPackage ./collections-extended.nix {
diff --git a/nix/twisted.patch b/nix/twisted.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b6846c8e..000000000
--- a/nix/twisted.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/src/twisted/internet/test/test_endpoints.py b/src/twisted/internet/test/test_endpoints.py
-index c650fd8aa6..a1754fd533 100644
---- a/src/twisted/internet/test/test_endpoints.py
-+++ b/src/twisted/internet/test/test_endpoints.py
-@@ -4214,6 +4214,7 @@ class WrapClientTLSParserTests(unittest.TestCase):
-         connectionCreator = connectionCreatorFromEndpoint(reactor, endpoint)
-         self.assertEqual(connectionCreator._hostname, "\xe9xample.example.com")
- 
-+    @skipIf(True, "self.assertFalse(plainClient.transport.disconnecting) fails")
-     def test_tls(self):
-         """
-         When passed a string endpoint description beginning with C{tls:},