diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 7c4d1a6..a2ea363 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -58,12 +58,12 @@ PY
 # =============================================================================
 # Stage 3: Runtime
 # =============================================================================
-FROM ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:0.11.7 AS uv
-
 FROM python:3.12-slim
 
-# uv — fast pip replacement; pinned version, not :latest
-COPY --from=uv /uv /uvx /bin/
+# uv — fast pip replacement. Installed from PyPI (Fastly CDN) rather than
+# ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv, because GHCR pulls from this runner crawl at a few
+# hundred KB/s and take longer than the install savings would recoup.
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir uv==0.11.7
 
 ENV UV_COMPILE_BYTECODE=1 \
     UV_LINK_MODE=copy